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Presynaptic developmental plasticity allows robust sparse wiring of the Drosophila mushroom body.


ABSTRACT: In order to represent complex stimuli, principle neurons of associative learning regions receive combinatorial sensory inputs. Density of combinatorial innervation is theorized to determine the number of distinct stimuli that can be represented and distinguished from one another, with sparse innervation thought to optimize the complexity of representations in networks of limited size. How the convergence of combinatorial inputs to principle neurons of associative brain regions is established during development is unknown. Here, we explore the developmental patterning of sparse olfactory inputs to Kenyon cells of the Drosophila melanogaster mushroom body. By manipulating the ratio between pre- and post-synaptic cells, we find that postsynaptic Kenyon cells set convergence ratio: Kenyon cells produce fixed distributions of dendritic claws while presynaptic processes are plastic. Moreover, we show that sparse odor responses are preserved in mushroom bodies with reduced cellular repertoires, suggesting that developmental specification of convergence ratio allows functional robustness.

SUBMITTER: Elkahlah NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7028369 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Presynaptic developmental plasticity allows robust sparse wiring of the <i>Drosophila</i> mushroom body.

Elkahlah Najia A NA   Rogow Jackson A JA   Ahmed Maria M   Clowney E Josephine EJ  

eLife 20200108


In order to represent complex stimuli, principle neurons of associative learning regions receive combinatorial sensory inputs. Density of combinatorial innervation is theorized to determine the number of distinct stimuli that can be represented and distinguished from one another, with sparse innervation thought to optimize the complexity of representations in networks of limited size. How the convergence of combinatorial inputs to principle neurons of associative brain regions is established dur  ...[more]

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