Sleep correlates with behavioral decision making critical for reproductive output in Drosophila melanogaster.

ABSTRACT: Balance between sleep, wakefulness and arousal is important for survival of organisms and species as a whole. While, the benefits of sleep both in terms of quantity and quality is widely recognized across species, sleep has a cost for organismal survival and reproduction. Here we focus on how sleep duration, sleep depth and sleep pressure affect the ability of animals to engage in courtship and egg-laying behaviors critical for reproductive success. Using isogenic lines from the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel with variable sleep phenotypes we investigated the relationship between sleep and reproductive behaviors, courtship and oviposition. We found that three out of five lines with decreased sleep and increased arousal phenotypes, showed increased courtship and decreased latency to cou

SUBMITTER: Buchert SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9299756 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature