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The NMDA Receptor Promotes Sleep in the Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Tomita Jun, Ueno Taro, Mitsuyoshi Madoka, Kume Shoen, Kume Kazuhiko
Abstract excerpt
Considerable evidence indicates that sleep is essential for learning and memory. Drosophila melanogaster has emerged as a novel model for studying sleep. We previously found a short sleeper mutant, fumin (fmn), and identified its mutation in the dopamine transporter gene. We reported similarities in the molecular basis of sleep and arousal regulation between mammals and Drosophila. In aversive olfactory learning...
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