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Data from Screening Thousands of Mouse Mutant Strains During Sleep

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Data from screening thousands of mouse mutant strains during sleep has isolated two mutations dubbed Sleepy and Dreamless. How do these mutations differ in terms of sleep and what is an implication in terms of the role of sleep in memory consolidation?


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