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Staying awake to stay alive: A circuit controlling starvation-induced waking by Melnattur, Krishna, Shaw, Paul

“…The balance of sleep and wake is plastic and changes to meet environmental demands. Mechanisms that allow an animal to suppress sleep and maintain waking in…”
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A hard-wired glutamatergic circuit pools and relays UV signals to mediate spectral preference in Drosophila by Karuppudurai, Thangavel, Lin, Tzu-Yang, Ting, Chun-Yuan, Pursley, Randall, Melnattur, Krishna V, Diao, Fengqiu, White, Benjamin H, Macpherson, Lindsey J, Gallio, Marco, Pohida, Thomas, Lee, Chi-Hon

“…Many visual animals have innate preferences for particular wavelengths of light, which can be modified by learning. Drosophila's preference for UV over visible…”
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Visual circuit assembly in Drosophila by Melnattur, Krishna V., Lee, Chi‐Hon

“…Both insect and vertebrate visual circuits are organized into orderly arrays of columnar and layered synaptic units that correspond to the array of…”
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Multiple Redundant Medulla Projection Neurons Mediate Color Vision in Drosophila by Melnattur, Krishna V., Pursley, Randall, Lin, Tzu-Yang, Ting, Chun-Yuan, Smith, Paul D., Pohida, Thomas, Lee, Chi-Hon

“…Abstract The receptor mechanism for color vision has been extensively studied. In contrast, the circuit(s) that transform(s) photoreceptor signals into color…”
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The sox gene Dichaete is expressed in local interneurons and functions in development of the Drosophila adult olfactory circuit by Melnattur, Krishna V., Berdnik, Daniela, Rusan, Zeid, Ferreira, Christopher J., Nambu, John R.

“…In insects, the primary sites of integration for olfactory sensory input are the glomeruli in the antennal lobes. Here, axons of olfactory receptor neurons…”
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Maternal expression and function of the Drosophila sox gene Dichaete during oogenesis by Mukherjee, Ashim, Melnattur, Krishna V., Zhang, Mao, Nambu, John R.

“…Members of the Sox family of DNA‐binding HMG domain proteins have been shown to regulate gene transcription in a wide range of developmental processes,…”
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Comparative biology of sleep in diverse animals by Lakhiani, Rhea, Shanavas, Sahana, Melnattur, Krishna

“…Sleep is a familiar, periodic occurrence in our lives. Despite its place in everyday experience, the existence of this suspended state of consciousness has…”
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A conserved role for sleep in supporting Spatial Learning in Drosophila by Melnattur, Krishna, Kirszenblat, Leonie, Morgan, Ellen, Militchin, Valentin, Sakran, Blake, English, Denis, Patel, Rushi, Chan, Dorothy, van Swinderen, Bruno, Shaw, Paul J

“…Abstract Sleep loss and aging impair hippocampus-dependent Spatial Learning in mammalian systems. Here we use the fly Drosophila melanogaster to investigate…”
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Learning and Memory: Do Bees Dream? by Melnattur, Krishna, Dissel, Stephane, Shaw, Paul J.

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The Sleep Nullifying Apparatus: A Highly Efficient Method of Sleep Depriving Drosophila by Melnattur, Krishna, Morgan, Ellen, Duong, Vincent, Kalra, Arjan, Shaw, Paul J

“…Sleep homeostasis, the increase in sleep observed following sleep loss, is one of the defining criteria used to identify sleep throughout the animal kingdom…”
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Learning and Memory: Do Bees Dream? by Melnattur, Krishna, Dissel, Stephane, Shaw, Paul J.

“…In mammals, evidence for memory reactivation during sleep highlighted the important role that sleep plays in memory consolidation. A new study reports that…”
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Sleep, Performance, and Memory in Flies by Dissel, Stephane, Melnattur, Krishna, Shaw, Paul J.

“…Drosophila has proven to be a powerful model to identify genes and circuits that impact sleep. While the majority of studies have primarily been interested in…”
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Novel developmental functions of the Drosophila SOX gene Dichaete by Melnattur, Krishna V

“…All multicellular life begins as a single cell—the fertilised egg, from which the adult organism develops. As a general priniciple, as embryos progess through…”
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P[52A-GAL4] is an insertion in the Drosophila GP150 gene by Melnattur, Krishna, Rawson, Erin, Nambu, John R.

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Novel developmental functions of the Drosophila SOX gene Dichaete by Melnattur, Krishna V

“…All multicellular life begins as a single cell---the fertilised egg, from which the adult organism develops. As a general priniciple, as embryos progess…”
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