Pan-Neuronal Knockdown of Calcineurin Reduces Sleep in the Fruit Fly,<i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>

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Sleep is a unique physiological state, which is behaviorally defined, and is broadly conserved across species from mammals to invertebrates such as insects. Because of the experimental accessibility provided by various novel animal models including the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, there have been significant advances in the understanding of sleep. Although the physiological functions of sleep have not been...

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