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Sexual dimorphism of sleep regulated by juvenile hormone signaling in Drosophila.
PLoS genetics - 1 Apr 2018
Wu Binbin, Ma Lingling, Zhang Enyan, Du Juan, Liu Suning, Price Jeffrey, Li Sheng, Zhao Zhangwu
Abstract excerpt
Sexually dimorphic phenotypes are a universal phenomenon in animals. In the model animal fruit fly Drosophila, males and females exhibit long- and short-sleep phenotypes, respectively. However, the mechanism is still a mystery. In this study, we showed that juvenile hormone (JH) is involved in regulation of sexually dimorphic sleep in Drosophila, in which gain of JH function enlarges differences of the dimorphic...
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