Sleep is essential for basic survival, and insufficient sleep leads to a variety of dysfunctions.
In humans, one of the most profound consequences of sleep deprivation is imprecise or …

Sleep-like behavior has been studied in honeybees before, but the relationship between
sleep and memory formation has not been explored. Here we describe a new approach to …

Sleep is a dynamic phenomenon that changes throughout an organism's lifetime, relating to
possible age-or task-associated changes in health, learning ability, vigilance and fitness …

The mechanisms through which work is organized are central to understanding how
complex systems function. Previous studies suggest that task organization can emerge via …

Despite its evolutionary importance and apparent ubiquity among animals, the ecological
significance of sleep is largely unresolved. The ecology of sleep has been particularly …

Shifts in work schedules test humans' capacity to be flexible in the timing of both work and
sleep. Honeybee, Apis mellifera, foragers also shift their work schedules, but how flexible …

A majority of humans spend their waking hours surrounded by insects, so it should be no
surprise that insects also appear in humans' dreams as we sleep. Dreaming about insects …

Although sleep is essential for the survival of all animals, this behaviour is far from being
studied in all species, especially in invertebrates. In this dissertation, we attempted to bring …

A photo documentation of a sleeping aggregation of Amegilla quadrifasciata (Villers, 1789)
subspecies maderae (Sichel, 1867), endemic to the Madeira Archipelago, is presented …

Sleep is a behavioral condition fraught with mystery. Its definition—either a suite of
diagnostic behavioral characters, electrophysiological signatures, or a combination of the …