Widespread loss of sleep in independently evolved populations of wild-caught cavefish
Owen W. North, Lourdes Citlalli Maza-Castañeda, Aubrey E. Manning, Aakriti Rastogi, Andrew G. Gluesenkamp, Leah Gluesenkamp, Nathan E. Swanson, Jorge Hernández-Lozano, Marco A Garduño-Sánchez, Jesús Alberto Díaz-Cruz, Johanna E. Kowalko, Suzanne E. McGaugh, Claudia Patricia Ornelas‐García, Alex C. Keene
This study examines sleep loss in cavefish populations and finds it is widespread and evolutionarily convergent across multiple lineages.
iScience · Nov 5, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology