Factors that differentially affect daytime and nighttime sleep in Drosophila

Rest in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has key characteristics of mammalian sleep and is thus considered as a fly version of sleep. Drosophila sleep has been studied extensively, with the aim of gaining fundamental insights into the evolutionarily conserved functions of sleep as well as the m...

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Main Authors: Hiroshi eIshimoto, Arianna R.S. Lark, Toshihiro eKitamoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2012.00024/full