A screen for sleep and starvation resistance identifies a wake-promoting role for the auxiliary channel unc79
Kazuma Murakami, Justin Palermo, Bethany A Stanhope, Allen G. Gibbs, Alex C. Keene
This study identifies UNC79 as a gene that increases sleep duration and starvation resistance in flies, with distinct roles in mushroom body neurons versus circadian pacemaker neurons.
G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Jun 16, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience