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Sex- and strain-dependent effects of ageing on sleep and activity patterns in Drosophila.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2024
Woodling Nathan
Abstract excerpt
The fruit fly Drosophila is a major discovery platform in the biology of ageing due to its balance of relatively short lifespan and relatively complex physiology and behaviour. Previous studies have suggested that some important phenotypes of ageing, for instance increasingly fragmented sleep, are shared from humans to Drosophila and can be useful measures of behavioural change with age: these phenotypes...
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