Recent social loss, not chronic isolation, reshapes sleep in Drosophila

Drosophila melanogaster is widely used to study social experience, yet it remains unclear whether sleep phenotypes attributed to isolation reflect chronic deprivation or the consequences of a recent change in social state.

Drosophila melanogaster is widely used to study social experience, yet it remains unclear whether sleep phenotypes attributed to isolation reflect chronic deprivation or the consequences of a recent change in social state. Many fly studies alter social context again at the time…