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Natural selection on sleep duration in Drosophila melanogaster

Sleep is ubiquitous across animal species, but why it persists is not well understood. Here we observe natural selection act on Drosophila sleep by relaxing bi-directional artificial selection for extreme sleep duration for 62 generations. When artificial selection was suspended, sleep increased in...

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Published in:Sci Rep
Main Authors: Souto-Maior, Caetano, Serrano Negron, Yazmin L., Harbison, Susan T.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7691507/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33244154
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77680-0
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