The NMDA Receptor Promotes Sleep in the Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster

Considerable evidence indicates that sleep is essential for learning and memory. Drosophila melanogaster has emerged as a novel model for studying sleep. We previously found a short sleeper mutant, fumin (fmn), and identified its mutation in the dopamine transporter gene. We reported similarities in...

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Main Authors: Tomita, Jun, Ueno, Taro, Mitsuyoshi, Madoka, Kume, Shoen, Kume, Kazuhiko
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4449117/