Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Shifted levels of sleep and activity under darkness as mechanisms underlying ectoparasite resistance
J. B. Benoit, O. M. Ajayi, A. Webster…·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.
DOI 10.1101/2023.10.30.564749