Sleep is important for maintenance of normal physiology in animals. In mammals,
neuropeptide Y (NPY), a homolog of Drosophila neuropeptide F (NPF), is involved in sleep …

Sleep abnormalities have widespread and costly public health consequences, yet we have
only a rudimentary understanding of the events occurring at the cellular level in the brain …

Circadian rhythms in behaviour and physiology exist widely in animals, plants, fungi and
cyanobacteria. Although much work has been carried out to characterize the endogenous …

The short neuropeptide F (sNPF), a neuropeptide in the central nervous system (CNS) of
Drosophila melanogaster, is expressed in a large population of diverse neurons of brain …

To advance the understanding of sleep regulation, we screened for sleep-promoting cells
and identified neurons expressing neuropeptide Y-like short neuropeptide F (sNPF). Sleep …

Proper regulation of sleep-wake behavior and feeding is essential for organismal health and
survival. While previous studies have isolated discrete neural loci and substrates important …

Sleep is an essential and evolutionarily conserved behavioral state whose regulation
remains poorly understood. To identify genes that regulate vertebrate sleep, we recently …

Sleep, a reversible quiescent state found in both invertebrate and vertebrate animals,
disconnects animals from their environment and is highly regulated for coordination with …

Animals display stereotyped behavioral modifications during development, but little is known
about how genes and neural circuits are regulated to turn on/off behaviors. Here we report …

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 …