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Sleep in Populations of Drosophila Melanogaster
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- Large-language models facilitate discovery of the molecular signatures regulating sleep and activity.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Mutations in trpγ, the homologue of TRPC6 autism candidate gene, causes autism-like behavioral deficits in Drosophila.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Article
- Effects of Atomoxetine Hydrochloride on Regulation of Lifespan in Drosophila Model.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2022Article
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- The Effect of Mating and the Male Sex Peptide on Group Behaviour of Post-mated Female Drosophila melanogaster.Neurochemical research · 2019Article
- Sleep inFrontiers in physiology · 2019Review
- The neurobiological basis of sleep: Insights from Drosophila.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2018Review
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- Identification of octopaminergic neurons that modulate sleep suppression by male sex drive.eLife · 2017Article
- Circadian Rhythms and Sleep inGenetics · 2017Review
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Abstract
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a diurnal insect active during the day with consolidated sleep at night. Social interactions between pairs of flies have been shown to affect locomotor activity patterns, but effects on locomotion and sleep patterns have not been assessed for larger populations. Here, we use a commercially available locomotor activity monitor (LAM25H) system to record and analyze sleep behavior. Surprisingly, we find that same-sex populations of flies synchronize their sleep/wake activity, resulting in a population sleep pattern, which is similar but not identical to that of isolated individuals. Like individual flies, groups of flies show circadian and homeostatic regulation of sleep, as well as sexual dimorphism in sleep pattern and sensitivity to starvation and a known sleep-disrupting mutation (amnesiac). Populations of flies, however, exhibit distinct sleep characteristics from individuals. Differences in sleep appear to be due to olfaction-dependent social interactions and change with population size and sex ratio. These data support the idea that it is possible to investigate neural mechanisms underlying the effects of population behaviors on sleep by directly looking at a large number of animals in laboratory conditions.
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