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SUBMITTER: Wu KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6018780 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Katherine J KJ Kumar Shailesh S Serrano Negron Yazmin L YL Harbison Susan T ST
Sleep 20180201 2
Patterns of sleep often vary among individuals. But sleep and activity may also vary within an individual, fluctuating in pattern across time. One possibility is that these daily fluctuations in sleep are caused by the underlying genotype of the individual. However, differences attributable to genetic causes are difficult to distinguish from environmental factors in outbred populations such as humans. We therefore employed Drosophila as a model of intra-individual variability in sleep using prev ...[more]