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A dynamic role for the mushroom bodies in promoting sleep in Drosophila.
Nature - 8 Jun 2006
Pitman Jena L, McGill Jermaine J, Keegan Kevin P, Allada Ravi
Abstract excerpt
The fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, exhibits many of the cardinal features of sleep, yet little is known about the neural circuits governing its sleep. Here we have performed a screen of GAL4 lines expressing a temperature-sensitive synaptic blocker shibire(ts1) (ref. 2) in a range of discrete neural circuits, and assayed the amount of sleep at different temperatures. We identified three short-sleep lines at...
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