Better Sleep at Night: How Light Influences Sleep in Drosophila

GM Mazzotta, M Damulewicz, P Cusumano - Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… in shaping the fly sleep-wake pattern. In particular, we will initially describe neurotransmitters
that regulate sleep in Drosophila. We will then focus on the sleep centers and pathways (…

Factors that Differentially Affect Daytime and Nighttime Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster

H Ishimoto, A Lark, T Kitamoto - Frontiers in neurology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
… exist between daytime and nighttime sleep (Hendricks et al., … is that Drosophila daytime
and nighttime sleep may correspond … two temporally distinct components of Drosophila sleep. …

Circadian Rhythms and Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster

C Dubowy, A Sehgal - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… not until the advent of Drosophila research in the 1960s that … many different aspects of
Drosophila behavior and physiology… Locomotor activity in Drosophila is organized such that, in a …

Sleep in Drosophila and Its Context

EJ Beckwith, AS French - Frontiers in physiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
… Caffeine affects night sleep more than day and it is more efficacious in females, whereas
starvation reduces both day and night sleep in males and females. There is also evidence that …

Large ventral lateral neurons modulate arousal and sleep in Drosophila

V Sheeba, KJ Fogle, M Kaneko, S Rashid, YT Chou… - Current Biology, 2008 - cell.com
… causes reduction in both daytime and nighttime sleep (Figure S3B). No change in sleep
levels is seen either during day or night when olfactory projection neurons are hyperexcited (…

A Genetic Screen for Sleep and Circadian Mutants Reveals Mechanisms Underlying Regulation of Sleep in Drosophila

MN Wu, K Koh, Z Yue, WJ Joiner, A Sehgal - Sleep, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… daily sleep correlates with bout number or nighttime sleep … the Drosophila genome for
mutations causing reduced sleep, our … homeostatic sleep drive (unless these also affect viability). …

Genome-wide association study of sleep in Drosophila melanogaster

ST Harbison, LJ McCoy, TFC Mackay - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
… for all sleep traits, with H 2 = 0.72 for night sleep duration CV … We chose it to test it based on
the night sleep CV E and … and night bout number, day and night sleep, day and night average …

The regulation of Drosophila sleep

OT Shafer, AC Keene - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
… Here, we review advances in the study of sleep in Drosophila, discuss their implications
for understanding the fundamental functions of sleep that are likely to be conserved among …

Reduced sleep in Drosophila Shaker mutants

C Cirelli, D Bushey, S Hill, R Huber, R Kreber… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
sleep 7–8 h per night, and if we are deprived of sleepsleep amount in Drosophila we
screened through approximately 6,000 ethylmethane sulphonate (EMS)-mutagenized Drosophila

Sensory processing during sleep in Drosophila melanogaster

AS French, Q Geissmann, EJ Beckwith, GF Gilestro - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
… stimuli was also dependent on the time of the day, with awakenings to 1% and 5% acetic
acid being more likely during late-night sleep than during early-night sleep or siesta, when …