A wake-active locomotion circuit depolarizes a sleep-active neuron to switch on sleep
Elisabeth Maluck, Inka Busack, Judith Besseling, Florentin Masurat, Michał Turek, Karl Emanuel Busch, Henrik Bringmann
The paper identifies wake-active neurons that depolarize sleep-active neurons to initiate sleep in C. elegans by coordinating locomotion circuits during lethargus.
PLoS Biology · Feb 20, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience