Shifted levels of sleep and activity under darkness as mechanisms underlying ectoparasite resistance
J. B. Benoit, O. M. Ajayi, A. Webster, K. Grieshop, D. Lewis, H. Talbott, J. Bose, M. Polak
This study shows that mite-resistant Drosophila melanogaster lines exhibit reduced sleep, increased activity, and metabolic gene expression, but decreased starvation resistance under darkness.
bioRxiv · Oct 30, 2023 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology