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A dynamic deep sleep stage in Drosophila.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 17 Apr 2013
van Alphen Bart, Yap Melvyn H W, Kirszenblat Leonie, Kottler Benjamin, van Swinderen Bruno
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How might one determine whether simple animals such as flies sleep in stages? Sleep in mammals is a dynamic process involving different stages of sleep intensity, and these are typically associated with measurable changes in brain activity (Blake and Gerard, 1937; Rechtschaffen and Kales, 1968; Webb and Agnew, 1971). Evidence for different sleep stages in invertebrates remains elusive, even though it has been...
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