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Primacy model and the evolution of the olfactory receptor repertoire

Hamza Giaffar, Dmitry Rinberg, Alexei A. Koulakov
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/255661
Hamza Giaffar
1Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
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Dmitry Rinberg
2NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY 10016
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Alexei A. Koulakov
1Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
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Abstract

For many animals, the neural activity in early olfactory circuits during a single sniff cycle contains sufficient information for fine odor discrimination. Whilst much is known about the transformations of neural representations in early olfactory circuits, exactly how odorant evoked activity in the main olfactory bulb shapes the perception of odors remains largely unknown. In olfaction, odorant identity is generally conserved over a wide range of conditions, including concentration. We present a theory of identity assignment in the olfactory system that accounts for this invariance with respect to stimulus intensity. We suggest that the identities of relatively few high affinity olfactory receptor types determine an odorant's perceived identity. This set of high-affinity receptors is defined as the primary set and the coding model based on their responses is called the primacy theory. In this study, we explore the impact that primacy coding may have on the evolution of the ensemble of olfactory receptors. A primacy coding mechanism predicts the arrangement of different receptor types in a low-dimensional structure that we call a primacy hull. We present several statistical analyses that can detect the presence of this structure, allowing the predictions of the primacy model to be tested experimentally.

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Hamza Giaffar, Dmitry Rinberg, Alexei A. Koulakov
bioRxiv 255661; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/255661
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Primacy model and the evolution of the olfactory receptor repertoire
Hamza Giaffar, Dmitry Rinberg, Alexei A. Koulakov
bioRxiv 255661; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/255661

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