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Includes bibliography.
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Florida Atlantic University
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2018
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2018
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Natural-occurring factors stemming from the environment can influence complex behaviors, such
as feeding and sleeping. These factors act evolutionarily as selective pressures, shaping an organism’s
behavior, for example suppressing sleep in order to forage for food. Under evolutionary influence, the
regulation of sleep and metabolic homeostasis is crucial for an animal’s survival. Notable differences in
sleep and metabolic phenotypes are seen across the animal kingdom, however how ecological factors
maintain these phenotypes is poorly understood.
Using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, this Honors Thesis will assess sleep, starvation, and
metabolic traits in 24 populations gathered from various geographic localities. Previous studies using
Drosophila have identified the novel genetic regulators of sleep, metabolism and evolutionary processes.
Sleep dysregulation leads to the deterioration of normal functions within both the fruit fly and humans. My
project investigates how this variation in behavior interacts with evolutionary environment and history.
as feeding and sleeping. These factors act evolutionarily as selective pressures, shaping an organism’s
behavior, for example suppressing sleep in order to forage for food. Under evolutionary influence, the
regulation of sleep and metabolic homeostasis is crucial for an animal’s survival. Notable differences in
sleep and metabolic phenotypes are seen across the animal kingdom, however how ecological factors
maintain these phenotypes is poorly understood.
Using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, this Honors Thesis will assess sleep, starvation, and
metabolic traits in 24 populations gathered from various geographic localities. Previous studies using
Drosophila have identified the novel genetic regulators of sleep, metabolism and evolutionary processes.
Sleep dysregulation leads to the deterioration of normal functions within both the fruit fly and humans. My
project investigates how this variation in behavior interacts with evolutionary environment and history.
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43 p.
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FAUHT00056
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Includes bibliography.
Thesis (B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, 2018.
FAU Honors Theses Digital Collection
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
Attributed name: Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Torres, Joshua
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GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN SLEEP AND METABOLIC FUNCTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH LATITUDE AND TEMPERATURE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
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Florida Atlantic University
Jupiter, Florida
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GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN SLEEP AND METABOLIC FUNCTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH LATITUDE AND TEMPERATURE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
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GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN SLEEP AND METABOLIC FUNCTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH LATITUDE AND TEMPERATURE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER