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Sleep and wakefulness in Drosophila melanogaster.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Jan 2008
Cirelli Chaira, Bushey Daniel
Abstract excerpt
Sleep is present and tightly regulated in every vertebrate species in which it has been carefully investigated, but what sleep is for remains a mystery. Sleep is also present in invertebrates, and an extensive analysis in Drosophila melanogaster has shown that sleep in fruit flies shows most of the fundamental features that characterize sleep in mammals. In Drosophila, sleep consists of sustained periods of...
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