Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2020-03-01Epub Date: 2020-02-11DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2020.1715971
Tamara Boto, Aaron Stahl, Seth M Tomchik
{"title":"Cellular and circuit mechanisms of olfactory associative learning in <i>Drosophila</i>.","authors":"Tamara Boto, Aaron Stahl, Seth M Tomchik","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2020.1715971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2020.1715971","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent years have witnessed significant progress in understanding how memories are encoded, from the molecular to the cellular and the circuit/systems levels. With a good compromise between brain complexity and behavioral sophistication, the fruit fly <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> is one of the preeminent animal models of learning and memory. Here we review how memories are encoded in <i>Drosophila</i>, with a focus on short-term memory and an eye toward future directions. Forward genetic screens have revealed a large number of genes and transcripts necessary for learning and memory, some acting cell-autonomously. Further, the relative numerical simplicity of the fly brain has enabled the reverse engineering of learning circuits with remarkable precision, in some cases ascribing behavioral phenotypes to single neurons. Functional imaging and physiological studies have localized and parsed the plasticity that occurs during learning at some of the major loci. Connectomics projects are significantly expanding anatomical knowledge of the nervous system, filling out the roadmap for ongoing functional/physiological and behavioral studies, which are being accelerated by simultaneous tool development. These developments have provided unprecedented insight into the fundamental neural principles of learning, and lay the groundwork for deep understanding in the near future.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"34 1","pages":"36-46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01677063.2020.1715971","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37632069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2020-03-01Epub Date: 2020-01-30DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2020.1713117
Rüdiger Wehner
{"title":"<i>Cataglyphis</i> meets <i>Drosophila</i>.","authors":"Rüdiger Wehner","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2020.1713117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2020.1713117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In <i>Cataglyphis</i> and <i>Drosophila</i> - in desert ants and fruit flies - research on visually guided behavior took different paths. While work in <i>Cataglyphis</i> started in the field and covered the animal's wide navigational repertoire, in <i>Drosophila</i> the initial focus was on a particular kind of visual control behavior scrutinized within the confines of the laboratory arena, before research concentrated on more advanced behaviors. In recent times, these multi-pronged approaches in flies and ants increasingly converge, both conceptually and methodologically, and thus lay the ground for combined neuroethological efforts. In spite of the obvious differences in the behavioral repertoire of these two groups of insects, likely commonalities in the navigational processes and underlying neuronal circuitries are increasingly coming to the fore.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"34 1","pages":"184-188"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01677063.2020.1713117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37592644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reinhard Wolf, Martin Heisenberg, Björn Brembs, Scott Waddell, Aditi Mishra, Abigail Kehrer, Angelynn Simenson
{"title":"Memory, anticipation, action - working with Troy D. Zars.","authors":"Reinhard Wolf, Martin Heisenberg, Björn Brembs, Scott Waddell, Aditi Mishra, Abigail Kehrer, Angelynn Simenson","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2020.1715976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2020.1715976","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present here our reflections on the scientific work of the late Troy D. Zars (1967 - 2018), on what it was like to work with him, and what it means to us. A common theme running through his work is that memory systems are not for replaying the past. Rather, they are forward-looking systems, providing whatever guidance past experience has to offer for anticipating the outcome of future actions. And in situations where no such guidance is available trying things out is the best option. Working with Troy was inspiring precisely because of the optimism inherent in this concept and that he himself embodied. Our reflections highlight what this means to us as his former mentors, colleagues, and mentees, respectively, and what it might mean for the future of neurogenetics.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"34 1","pages":"9-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01677063.2020.1715976","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37789438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bertram Gerber, Elizabeth G King, David Schulz, Hiromu Tanimoto, Scott Waddell, Chun-Fang Wu
{"title":"Future perspectives of neurogenetics - in honor of Troy D. Zars (1967-2018).","authors":"Bertram Gerber, Elizabeth G King, David Schulz, Hiromu Tanimoto, Scott Waddell, Chun-Fang Wu","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2020.1715975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2020.1715975","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue is dedicated to ‘Future Perspectives of Neurogenetics’ in honor of Troy D. Zars (1967–2018). It is intended to offer insight and inspiration for our understanding of how adaptive...","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"34 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01677063.2020.1715975","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37789440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2020-03-01Epub Date: 2020-01-22DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2020.1712597
Bryon Silva, Christian Niehage, Marta Maglione, Bernard Hoflack, Stephan J Sigrist, Thomas Wassmer, Alice Pavlowsky, Thomas Preat
{"title":"Interactions between amyloid precursor protein-like (APPL) and MAGUK scaffolding proteins contribute to appetitive long-term memory in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>.","authors":"Bryon Silva, Christian Niehage, Marta Maglione, Bernard Hoflack, Stephan J Sigrist, Thomas Wassmer, Alice Pavlowsky, Thomas Preat","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2020.1712597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2020.1712597","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Amyloid precursor protein (APP), the precursor of amyloid beta peptide, plays a central role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), a pathology characterized by memory decline and synaptic loss upon aging. Understanding the physiological role of APP is fundamental in deciphering the progression of AD, and several studies suggest a synaptic function via protein-protein interactions. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether and how these interactions contribute to memory. In <i>Drosophila</i>, we previously showed that APP-like (APPL), the fly APP homolog, is required for aversive associative memory in the olfactory memory center, the mushroom body (MB). In the present study, we show that APPL is required for appetitive long-term memory (LTM), another form of associative memory, in a specific neuronal subpopulation of the MB, the α'/β' Kenyon cells. Using a biochemical approach, we identify the synaptic MAGUK (membrane-associated guanylate kinase) proteins X11, CASK, Dlgh2 and Dlgh4 as interactants of the APP intracellular domain (AICD). Next, we show that the <i>Drosophila</i> homologs CASK and Dlg are also required for appetitive LTM in the α'/β' neurons. Finally, using a double RNAi approach, we demonstrate that genetic interactions between APPL and CASK, as well as between APPL and Dlg, are critical for appetitive LTM. In summary, our results suggest that APPL contributes to associative long-term memory through its interactions with the main synaptic scaffolding proteins CASK and Dlg. This function should be conserved across species.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"34 1","pages":"92-105"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01677063.2020.1712597","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37565078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2020-03-01Epub Date: 2020-01-17DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2020.1712598
Katrin Vogt
{"title":"Towards a functional connectome in <i>Drosophila</i>.","authors":"Katrin Vogt","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2020.1712598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2020.1712598","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The full functionality of the brain is determined by its molecular, cellular and circuit structure. Modern neuroscience now prioritizes the mapping of whole brain connectomes by detecting all direct neuron to neuron synaptic connections, a feat first accomplished for <i>C. elegans</i>, a full reconstruction of a 302-neuron nervous system. Efforts at Janelia Research Campus will soon reconstruct the whole brain connectomes of a larval and an adult <i>Drosophila.</i> These connectomes will provide a framework for incorporating detailed neural circuit information that <i>Drosophila</i> neuroscientists have gathered over decades. But when viewed in the context of a whole brain, it becomes difficult to isolate the contributions of distinct circuits, whether sensory systems or higher brain regions. The complete wiring diagram tells us that sensory information is not only processed in separate channels, but that even the earliest sensory layers are strongly synaptically interconnected. In the higher brain, long-range projections densely interconnect major brain regions and convergence centers that integrate input from different sensory systems. Furthermore, we also need to understand the impact of neuronal communication beyond direct synaptic modulation. Nevertheless, all of this can be pursued with <i>Drosophila</i>, combining connectomics with a diverse array of genetic tools and behavioral paradigms that provide effective approaches to entire brain function.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"34 1","pages":"156-161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01677063.2020.1712598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37554031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2020-03-01Epub Date: 2020-01-10DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2019.1710145
Patricka A Williams-Simon, Mathangi Ganesan, Elizabeth G King
{"title":"Learning to collaborate: bringing together behavior and quantitative genomics.","authors":"Patricka A Williams-Simon, Mathangi Ganesan, Elizabeth G King","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2019.1710145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2019.1710145","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The genetic basis of complex trait like learning and memory have been well studied over the decades. Through those groundbreaking findings, we now have a better understanding about some of the genes and pathways that are involved in learning and/or memory. However, few of these findings identified the naturally segregating variants that are influencing learning and/or memory within populations. In this special issue honoring the legacy of Troy Zars, we review some of the traditional approaches that have been used to elucidate the genetic basis of learning and/or memory, specifically in fruit flies. We highlight some of his contributions to the field, and specifically describe his vision to bring together behavior and quantitative genomics with the aim of expanding our knowledge of the genetic basis of both learning and memory. Finally, we present some of our recent work in this area using a multiparental population (MPP) as a case study and describe the potential of this approach to advance our understanding of neurogenetics.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"34 1","pages":"28-35"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01677063.2019.1710145","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37528465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2020-03-01Epub Date: 2020-01-24DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2020.1714612
Benita Brünner, Juliane Saumweber, Merve Samur, Denise Weber, Isabell Schumann, Deepthi Mahishi, Astrid Rohwedder, Andreas S Thum
{"title":"Food restriction reconfigures naïve and learned choice behavior in <i>Drosophila</i> larvae.","authors":"Benita Brünner, Juliane Saumweber, Merve Samur, Denise Weber, Isabell Schumann, Deepthi Mahishi, Astrid Rohwedder, Andreas S Thum","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2020.1714612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2020.1714612","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In many animals, the establishment and expression of food-related memory is limited by the presence of food and promoted by its absence, implying that this behavior is driven by motivation. In the past, this has already been demonstrated in various insects including honeybees and adult <i>Drosophila</i>. For <i>Drosophila</i> larvae, which are characterized by an immense growth and the resulting need for constant food intake, however, knowledge is rather limited. Accordingly, we have analyzed whether starvation modulates larval memory formation or expression after appetitive classical olfactory conditioning, in which an odor is associated with a sugar reward. We show that odor-sugar memory of starved larvae lasts longer than in fed larvae, although the initial performance is comparable. 80 minutes after odor fructose conditioning, only starved but not fed larvae show a reliable odor-fructose memory. This is likely due to a specific increase in the stability of anesthesia-resistant memory (ARM). Furthermore, we observe that starved larvae, in contrast to fed ones, prefer sugars that offer a nutritional benefit in addition to their sweetness. Taken together our work shows that <i>Drosophila</i> larvae adjust the expression of learned and naïve choice behaviors in the absence of food. These effects are only short-lasting probably due to their lifestyle and their higher internal motivation to feed. In the future, the extensive use of established genetic tools will allow us to identify development-specific differences arising at the neuronal and molecular level.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"34 1","pages":"123-132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01677063.2020.1714612","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37574921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2020-03-01Epub Date: 2020-01-30DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2020.1720674
Stephane Dissel, Ellen Morgan, Vincent Duong, Dorothy Chan, Bruno van Swinderen, Paul Shaw, Troy Zars
{"title":"Sleep restores place learning to the adenylyl cyclase mutant <i>rutabaga</i>.","authors":"Stephane Dissel, Ellen Morgan, Vincent Duong, Dorothy Chan, Bruno van Swinderen, Paul Shaw, Troy Zars","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2020.1720674","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01677063.2020.1720674","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sleep plays an important role in regulating plasticity. In <i>Drosophila</i>, the relationship between sleep and learning and memory has primarily focused on mushroom body dependent operant-learning assays such as aversive phototaxic suppression and courtship conditioning. In this study, sleep was increased in the classic mutant <i>rutabaga</i> (<i>rut<sup>2080</sup></i>) and <i>dunce</i> (<i>dnc<sup>1</sup></i>) by feeding them the GABA-A agonist gaboxadol (Gab). Performance was evaluated in each mutant in response to social enrichment and place learning, tasks that do not require the mushroom body. Gab-induced sleep did not restore behavioral plasticity to either <i>rut<sup>2080</sup></i> or <i>dnc<sup>1</sup></i> mutants following social enrichment. However, increased sleep restored place learning to <i>rut<sup>2080</sup></i> mutants. These data extend the positive effects of enhanced sleep to place learning and highlight the utility of Gab for elucidating the beneficial effects of sleep on brain functioning.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"34 1","pages":"83-91"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7250152/pdf/nihms-1566917.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37591038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of neurogeneticsPub Date : 2020-03-01Epub Date: 2020-01-30DOI: 10.1080/01677063.2020.1715974
Aditi Mishra, Patrick Cronley, Mathangi Ganesan, David J Schulz, Troy Zars
{"title":"Dopaminergic neurons can influence heat-box place learning in <i>Drosophila</i>.","authors":"Aditi Mishra, Patrick Cronley, Mathangi Ganesan, David J Schulz, Troy Zars","doi":"10.1080/01677063.2020.1715974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01677063.2020.1715974","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dopamine provides crucial neuromodulatory functions in several insect and rodent learning and memory paradigms. However, an early study suggested that dopamine may be dispensable for aversive place memory in <i>Drosophila</i>. Here we tested the involvement of particular dopaminergic neurons in place learning and memory. We used the thermogenetic tool Gr28bD to activate protocerebral anterior medial (PAM) cluster and non-PAM dopaminergic neurons in an operant way in heat-box place learning. We show that activation of PAM neurons influences performance during place learning, but not during memory testing. These findings provide a gateway to explore how dopamine influences place learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":16491,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurogenetics","volume":"34 1","pages":"115-122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01677063.2020.1715974","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37592642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}