PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ajayrama Kumaraswamy
AU  - Aynur Maksutov
AU  - Kazuki Kai
AU  - Hiroyuki Ai
AU  - Hidetoshi Ikeno
AU  - Thomas Wachtler
TI  - Network simulations of interneuron circuits in the honeybee primary auditory center
AID  - 10.1101/159533
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 159533
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/05/159533.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/05/159533.full
AB  - Processing of airborne vibration signals in the auditory system is essential for honeybee communication through the waggle dance language. Properties of neurons in the honeybee primary auditory center suggest a circuitry of excitatory and inhibitory neurons encoding these communication signals. To test this assumption, we simulated this network and analyzed the predicted responses for different types of inputs. In particular, we investigated the effect of specific inhibitory connections in the network. The results indicate that the experimentally observed responses of certain interneuron types are compatible with an inhibitory network of vibration processing in the primary auditory center of the honeybee.