Sleep: Giving it up to get it on

Oleg I Lyamin; Jerome M Siegel

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.061

Sleep: Giving it up to get it on

Curr Biol. 2024 Mar 11;34(5):R213-R216. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.061.

Authors

Oleg I Lyamin¹, Jerome M Siegel²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of California Los Angeles, Center for Sleep Research, North Hills, CA 91343, USA; A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia. Electronic address: olyamin@ucla.edu.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of California Los Angeles, Center for Sleep Research, North Hills, CA 91343, USA.

PMID: 38471454
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.061

Abstract

A new study presents evidence of sex-related sleep reduction in males of two marsupial mice species but not in females. The growing experimental data suggest that seasonal sleep reduction, linked to migrations and reproductive periods, is common among animals.

MeSH terms

Animals
Female
Male
Mice
Sleep*