Fig. 7. Functional and anatomical properties of ANs that integrate the number of PEs over time.
a, Top left: two-photon image of axons from an SS31232-Gal4 animal expressing OpGCaMP6f (cyan) and tdTomato (red). ROIs are numbered. Scale bar, 5 μm. Bottom: behavioral epochs are color-coded. Representative ΔF/F time series from two ROIs (green) overlaid with a prediction (black) obtained by convolving PE epochs with a Ca2+ indicator response function. Explained variance is indicated (R2). b, ΔF/F, normalized with respect to the neuron’s 90th percentile, as a function of PE number within a PE train for ROIs 0 (solid boxes, filled circles) or 1 (dashed boxes, open circles). Data include 25 PE trains from eight animals and are presented as IQR (box), median (center), 1.5× IQR (whisker) and outliers (circles). c, Explained variance (R2) between ΔF/F time series and a prediction obtained by convolving PE epochs with a Ca2+ indicator response function and a time window. Time windows that maximize the correlation for ROIs 0 (solid line) and 1 (dashed line) are indicated (red circles). d, Behavioral epochs are color-coded. Representative ΔF/F time series from two ROIs (green) are overlaid with a prediction (black) obtained by convolving PE epochs with a Ca2+ response function as well as the time windows indicated in c (red circles). Explained variance is indicated (R2). e, Standard deviation projection image of a SS31232-Gal4 nervous system expressing smFP and stained for GFP (green) and Nc82 (blue). Cell bodies are indicated (white asterisks). Scale bar, 40 μm. f, Projection as in e but for one MCFO-expressing, traced neuron (black asterisks). The brain’s GNG (yellow) and the VNC’s intermediate tectulum (green) and prothoracic leg neuromere (yellow) are color-coded. Scale bar, 40 μm. g,h, Higher magnification projections of brains (top) and VNCs (bottom) for SS31232-Gal4 animals expressing the stochastic label MCFO (g) or the synaptic marker, syt:GFP (green) and tdTomato (red) (h). Insets magnify dashed boxes. Indicated are cell bodies (asterisks) and bouton-like structures (white arrowheads). Scale bars for brain images are 10 μm. Scale bars for VNC images and insets are 20 μm and 2 μm, respectively.