Brown, M. P., Verma, S., Palmer, I., Guerrero Zuniga, A., Mehta, A., Rosensweig, C., Keles, M. F., Wu, M. N. (2024). A subclass of evening cells promotes the switch from arousal to sleep at dusk. Curr Biol, 34(10):2186-2199
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A subclass of evening cells promotes the switch from arousal to sleep at dusk
Brown et al. show that E1 clock neurons in Drosophila promote the switch from wake
to sleep at dusk in a light- and time-dependent manner. By contrast, E2 neurons regulate
canonical evening anticipati...