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Edge detection depends on achromatic channel in Drosophila melanogaster | |
Zhou, Yanqiong1,2; Ji, Xiaoxiao1,2; Gong, Haiyun1; Gong, Zhefeng1; Liu, Li1,3 | |
摘要 | Edges represent important information in object recognition, and thus edge detection is crucial for animal survival. Various types of edges result from visual contrast, such as luminance contrast and color contrast. So far, the molecular and neural mechanisms underlying edge detection and the relationship between different edge information-processing pathways have been largely undemonstrated. In the present study, using a color light-emitting-diode-based Buridan's paradigm, we demonstrated that a blue/green demarcation is able to generate edge-orientation behavior in the adult fly. There is a blue/green intensity ratio, the so-called point of equal luminance, at which wild-type flies did not show obvious orientation behavior towards edges. This suggests that orientation behavior towards edges is dependent on luminance contrast in Drosophila. The results of mutants ninaE(17) and sev(LY3); rh5(2); rh6(1) demonstrated that achromatic R1-R6 photoreceptor cells, but not chromatic R7/R8 photoreceptor cells, were necessary for orientation behavior towards edges. Moreover, ectopic expression of rhodopsin 4 (Rh4), Rh5 or Rh6 could efficiently restore the edge-orientation defect in the ninaE(17) mutant. Altogether, our results show that R1-R6 photoreceptor cells are both necessary and sufficient for orientation behavior towards edges in Drosophila. |
关键词 | Buridan's paradigm edge detection equiluminance photoreceptor cell rhodopsin mutant Drosophila melanogaster |
2012-10-01 | |
语种 | 英语 |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY |
ISSN | 0022-0949 |
卷号 | 215期号:19页码:3478-3487 |
期刊论文类型 | Article |
收录类别 | SCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000308676300025 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/13406 |
专题 | 中国科学院心理健康重点实验室 |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Brain & Cognit Sci, Inst Biophys, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Mental Hlth, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhou, Yanqiong,Ji, Xiaoxiao,Gong, Haiyun,et al. Edge detection depends on achromatic channel in Drosophila melanogaster[J]. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY,2012,215(19):3478-3487. |
APA | Zhou, Yanqiong,Ji, Xiaoxiao,Gong, Haiyun,Gong, Zhefeng,&Liu, Li.(2012).Edge detection depends on achromatic channel in Drosophila melanogaster.JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY,215(19),3478-3487. |
MLA | Zhou, Yanqiong,et al."Edge detection depends on achromatic channel in Drosophila melanogaster".JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 215.19(2012):3478-3487. |
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