Supplementary Figure 11: Selectivity of LEC neuronal subtypes quantified by lifetime sparseness.

(a) Cumulative distributions of lifetime sparseness for RE⁺, CB⁺ and GAD⁺ neurons. Lifetime sparseness was quantified as kurtosis of the maximum ∆F/F response for each odor. A kurtosis of 0 indicates normally distributed responses while kurtosis < 0 indicates more uniformly distributed responses. All three distributions are significantly different from each other (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, all p < 0.01). (b) Average (± s.e.m.) values of lifetime sparseness measured as kurtosis for RE⁺, CB⁺ and GAD⁺ neurons. Abbreviations: GAD⁺ neuron, GABAergic neuron. *** P < 0.001; ** P < 0.01; * P < 0.05, unpaired t-test.