The study investigates an emerging research field: the interaction between sleep and development. The authors use Drosophila larvae sleep as a study model and provide valuable insight into how ...

Although sleep is thought to serve many purposes, it is often studied for its restorative roles, which are believed to optimize lifespan and cognition. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has ...

Sleep is yet another area of interest ... Although we have traditionally studied this question in yeast, we are now addressing it in Drosophila. To this end, we are trying to measure at a genomic ...

“In Drosophila, there is a well-documented interaction between sleep and metabolism, whereby flies suppress sleep or increase their activity when starved,” said coauthor William Ja of the Scripps ...

We use video and automated monitoring systems to assess locomotion, circadian rhythms, sleep and courtship. The ability to manipulate the activity and biochemistry of particular neurons with exquisite ...