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Mechanisms of sleep plasticity due to sexual experience in Drosophila melanogaster.
Physiology & behavior - 15 Oct 2017
Dove Abigail E, Cook Brianne L, Irgebay Zhazira, Vecsey Christopher G
Abstract excerpt
Sleep can be altered by an organism's previous experience. For instance, female Drosophila melanogaster experience a post-mating reduction in daytime sleep that is purportedly mediated by sex peptide (SP), one of many seminal fluid proteins (SFPs) transferred from male to female during mating. In the present study, we first characterized this mating effect on sleep more fully, as it had previously only been...
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