Quantitative investigation reveals distinct phases in Drosophila sleep
Xu, et al. developed a quantitative method to characterize the sleep of flies by continuously tracking the fly activity. They find that the sleep state is distinguished from a short-rested state with an exponential distribution of sleep duration, which suggests a memoryless wakeup probability.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Communications Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01883-y |