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. 2017 Oct 6:6:e31646.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.31646.

To rebound or not to rebound

Bethany A Stahl  1 , Alex C Keene  1
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To rebound or not to rebound

Bethany A Stahl et al. Elife. .

Abstract

Sexual arousal in flies counteracts the effects of sleep deprivation.

Keywords: D. melanogaster; behavior; computational biology; neuroscience; sex; sleep; systems biology.

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Conflict of interest statement

No competing interests declared.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. The effect of social interactions on rebound sleep in flies.
Top panel: A male fly that has been deprived of sleep (red eye) by a male intruder (white eye) catches up on sleep the following day (rebound sleep). Bottom panel: Conversely, a male fly that has been deprived of sleep by pairing with a receptive female suppresses its need for sleep the following day, probably due to still being in a sexually aroused state (bottom panel).
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