{"title":"Temperature sensation in cold acclimation of nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is affected by environmental oxygen concentration","authors":"M. Okahata, Akane Ohta, A. Kuhara","doi":"10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.37.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.37.103","url":null,"abstract":"Temperature Humans receive multiple environmental stimuli by sensory neurons and transmit their information to brain. The nervous system in brain integrates and discriminates their information, and sends appropriate instructions to various tissues in the body. However, molecular physiological mechanisms un-derlying integration and discrimination of multiple signals in nervous system remain poorly understood. Here, we review that cold acclimation in C. elegans can be useful experimental model for studying the neuronal circuit integrating two different environmental factors, temperature and oxygen. C. elegans can appropriately adapt to environmental change by integrating and distinguishing multiple sensory information in neuronal circuit consisting of only 302 neurons. Recently, we have found KQT-type potassium channel (KQT-2) is involved in cold acclimation. Interestingly, kqt-2 mutant showed strong-er abnormal cold acclimation when they cultivated at higher oxygen concentration. The temperature-sensing neuron ex-pressing KQT-2 potassium channel has connection from an oxygen-sensing neuron. Ca 2+ imaging analysis suggested that the neuronal activity of the temperature-sensing neuron is modulated by oxygen signaling. We have proposed that molecular mechanisms and the simple neural circuit integrating two different sensory information.","PeriodicalId":377956,"journal":{"name":"Hikaku Seiri Seikagaku(comparative Physiology and Biochemistry)","volume":"381 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132864861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giant neuron is a key player for fast escape","authors":"Takashi Shimazaki, Y. Oda","doi":"10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.37.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.37.111","url":null,"abstract":"Escape behaviors are crucial to survive predator encounters or aversive stimuli. The neural circuits mediating escape re-actions of different animals have a common framework to trigger extremely fast and robust movement with minimum delay. Thus, the escape networks possibly represent function-al architectures to perform most efficient sensory-motor pro-cessing in the brain. Here we review escape behaviors and underlying circuits of squid, crayfish, fruit fly, zebrafish and rodent. The escape circuits of these animals involve giant neurons, or also called as giant fibers or giant axons, to initiate fast escape. Without activation of the giant neurons, the animals can do escape or similar behaviors typically in response to less precious threads, but they are delayed and much slow-er than fast escape initiated by the giant neurons. Therefore, fast and slow escape circuits are built, probably in parallel, in the brain and the giant neurons play a key role to induce fast escape to avoid imminent danger. We also discuss why the giant neurons are built in the fast escape circuits by introduc-ing their advantage to collect sensory information and to send ballistic motor output as fast as possible.","PeriodicalId":377956,"journal":{"name":"Hikaku Seiri Seikagaku(comparative Physiology and Biochemistry)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126854914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parallel negative feedback circuits in a higher olfactory center of the American cockroach","authors":"Naomi Takahashi","doi":"10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.37.119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.37.119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":377956,"journal":{"name":"Hikaku Seiri Seikagaku(comparative Physiology and Biochemistry)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130418878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neural mechanisms for developing species-universal and individually unique song of zebra finch.","authors":"M. Araki","doi":"10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.37.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.37.94","url":null,"abstract":"Songbirds, passerine, have species-specific and individually unique songs and sing for courtship behavior, territorial de-fense, and individual identification. Like human infants acquire language-specific vocalization by listening to parents’ speech, juveniles of songbirds develop species-specific songs by matching their immature vocalizations to songs memorized in early development gradually with vocal motor learning. Ex-pected to shed light on infants’ vocal learning, neural mechanisms of song learning have been investigated intensively, but little is known how neural circuit balances competing criteria, individual uniqueness and species-specificity. A songbird, zebra finches, are social breeder. Their juveniles listen to multi-ple conspecific songs and develop individually unique own songs. I review development of their individually unique and species-universal songs and neural activities in auditory area supporting the song acquisition in early development with discussion of open questions to be answered in this field.","PeriodicalId":377956,"journal":{"name":"Hikaku Seiri Seikagaku(comparative Physiology and Biochemistry)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127873888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abstracts from the 41st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry","authors":"","doi":"10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.37.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.37.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":377956,"journal":{"name":"Hikaku Seiri Seikagaku(comparative Physiology and Biochemistry)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129036437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physiological Relevance of Spectral Property of Visual Opsins in Jumping Spiders","authors":"T. Nagata, A. Terakita","doi":"10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.36.175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.36.175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":377956,"journal":{"name":"Hikaku Seiri Seikagaku(comparative Physiology and Biochemistry)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129951395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Circadian rhythms and clock in the colony of social insects.","authors":"T. Fuchikawa","doi":"10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.36.155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3330/hikakuseiriseika.36.155","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":377956,"journal":{"name":"Hikaku Seiri Seikagaku(comparative Physiology and Biochemistry)","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132768203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}