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Genetic and Anatomical Regulation of Sleep in Drosophila: A Role for the Mushroom Bodies, Circadian Neurons, and the Gene, Clock, in Sleep Promotion

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After nearly 100 years of research, the function of sleep is unknown, prompting the desire to examine its regulation in a simpler model organism. In 2000, <em>Drosophila</em> was described as a novel model system to investigate sleep. These early studies defined features of normal sleep in <em>Drosophila</em>, and presented evidence...

Keyword:

genetics, sleep, mushroom bodies, Clock, neuroanatomy, and Drosophila

Subject:

Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program

Creator:

Jena Pitman

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

08/16/2018

Date Modified:

08/16/2018

Date Created:

2007-08-15

Resource Type:

Dissertation