Journal article
Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals
Nature neuroscience, Vol.29, pp.543-550
03/2026
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-02159-y
PMID: 41461931
Abstract
By recording brain activity in seven lizard species, humans, rats and pigeons, we demonstrate an infraslow brain rhythm during sleep in all species. This rhythm is tightly coupled with eye movements, muscle tone, heart and breathing rate in lizards, with skin brightness in chameleons and with pulsatile changes in cerebrovascular volume throughout sleep in bearded dragons and during non-rapid eye movement sleep in mice. These findings indicate that the infraslow rhythm is conserved across amniotes, questioning the evolution of sleep states.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals
- Creators
- Antoine Bergel - Laboratoire Plasticité du CerveauJulien M Schmidt - InsermBaptiste Barrillot - Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueSébastien Arthaud - Université Jean MonnetLaetitia Averty - VetAgro SupMark S Blumberg - University of IowaCamille Carachet - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1Angeline Clair - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1Irina Filchenko - University Hospital of BernChloé Froidevaux - InsermAnthony Herrel - Ghent UniversityBertrand Massot - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de LyonNiels C Rattenborg - Max Planck Institute for OrnithologyMarkus H Schmidt - Sleep Management InstituteMickael Tanter - Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueGianina Ungurean - Max Planck Institute for Biological IntelligencePaul-Antoine Libourel - Université de Montpellier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nature neuroscience, Vol.29, pp.543-550
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41593-025-02159-y
- PMID
- 41461931
- NLM abbreviation
- Nat Neurosci
- ISSN
- 1546-1726
- eISSN
- 1546-1726
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Grant note
- 10102333 / EC | EC Seventh Framework Programm | FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions (FP7-PEOPLE - Specific Programme "People" Implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013))
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 12/29/2025
- Date published
- 03/2026
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9985112981902771
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