Figure 6. Multisynaptic sensory inputs onto mushroom body circuits.
(A) Schematic of major monosynaptic routes (top panel). Connectivity between presynaptic sensory neurons (ACa, AVa and AVp) and postsynaptic outputs (mNSCs, Se0ens, Se0ph and PMNs). Schematic of multisynaptic routes to the mushroom body (middle panel). Connectivity between presynaptic sensory neurons (antennal lobe, ACal, ACp, ACpl) and postsynaptic projection neurons to the calyx (PNs to KCs). EM reconstruction of respective neurons (lower panel); Left: sensory neurons (olfactory receptor neurons are excluded) are color-coded based on total number of synapses to the projection neurons. Right: projection neurons are color-coded based on total number of synapses from sensory neurons. Lateral views show neurons of the right brain hemisphere. (B) Adjacency matrix showing sensory-to-PN connectivity, color-coded by percentage of inputs on PN dendrites. Or35a-PN is essentially the only olfactory projection neuron that receives multisensory input from non-olfactory receptor neurons of the ACp (primary gustatory center). (C) Left: percentage of presynapses of sensory neurons to PNs. Right: percentage of postsynapses of PNs from sensory neurons.