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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Biol. 2017 Jun 9;27(12):1746–1756.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.033

Figure 5. Whole cell recordings show that rhythmic and swim-related activity exhibited by wild type FBMNs is also present in migration mutant FBMNs.

Figure 5

(A) Whole cell patch clamp recordings were made from the ventrolateral arm of the facial motor nucleus. (B) These recordings reveal a subset of wild type FBMNs (n=8/23 cells) that burst infrequently, correlated with tail motor activity. (C) Other wild type FBMNs also exhibit rhythmic bursting, typically in the absence of tail motor activity (n=15/23 cells). (D) Migration mutant llk(rw16) FBMNs can also respond during attempted tail movements (infrequent bursts only: n=2/8 cells) and in rhythmic bursts without large tail motor activity (n=6/8 cells). All recordings were done at 5dpf. Arrows indicate bursts of attempted tail movement activity. (E) Box-whisker plot showing the distribution of median rhythmic inter-burst intervals in wild type (n=15 cells) and llk(w16) mutant (n=6 cells) larvae.