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Newest preprint & we think it's a big one! Young animals sleep a ton, but not with a daily pattern. What controls emergence of circadian sleep🌘? In flies we figured out WHEN and HOW. But WHY?? Sleep rhythms enable ability to make enduring memories🤯🤯 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
www.biorxiv.org Developmental emergence of sleep rhythms enables long-term memory capabilities in Drosophila In adulthood, sleep-wake rhythms are one of the most prominent behaviors under circadian control. However, during early life, sleep is spread across the 24-hour day ([1][1]–[4][2]). The mechanism... 
