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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Whether invertebrates display distinct sleep stages, similar to those seen in mammals, is unknown. Yap _et al_. recorded local field
potentials from the brains of flies during sleep and observed the presence of an intermittent 7–10 Hz oscillation that was associated with transitions between sleep and wakefulness. They
further showed that the dorsal fan-shaped body of the central brain is responsible for generating these oscillations. These findings thus provide neural evidence for sleep stages in flies
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al. Oscillatory brain activity in spontaneous and induced sleep stages in flies. _Nat. Commun._ http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02024-y (2017) Download references Authors * Katherine
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