Plasticity and interactions in the odor responses of maxillary palps neurons in Aedes aegypti
Saran Singh, S.; Garg, S.; Singh, P.; Gupta, S.; Airan, A.; Goyal, S.; Gupta, N.
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Maxillary palps, in addition to the antennae, are major olfactory organs in mosquitoes and play an important role in the detection of human hosts. The sensory neurons of the maxillary palps reside in the capitate peg sensilla, each of which contains three neurons. In Aedes aegypti, the neuron with the largest spike amplitude in the sensillum is known to detect carbon dioxide. However, the responses of the other two neurons and the functional consequences of the grouping of these neurons within sensilla are not well understood. Here we identify odorants that activate the other two neurons. We detect a short-term plasticity in the odor-evoked local field potential of the sensillum and show that it originates in the spiking responses of the smallest-amplitude neuron, even though all three neurons contribute to the local field potential. We also detect inhibitory interactions among these neurons within the sensillum. We further show that the plasticity and the lateral interactions are functionally important as they affect the responses of the downstream projection neurons in the antennal lobe.
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