Energetic costs and benefits of sleep.

Lesku, John A; Schmidt, Markus H (2022). Energetic costs and benefits of sleep. Current biology, 32(12), R656-R661. Cell Press 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.004

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Energy derived from food is a precious resource to animals. Those finite calories are often well-earned through exhaustive foraging effort, which can dominate waking hours, to support physiological processes (e.g. body maintenance and growth) and ecological necessities (e.g. predator avoidance and courting) that are pertinent to the production of progeny. So, it is unsurprising to find that animals have evolved strategies to guard against the gratuitous waste of hard-won caloric energy. Yet, it remains surprising to find such diversity, and elegant creativity, in those solutions. Brief examples of energy-saving innovation could include the very shape of animals and how they move, from streamlined swimming sharks to skyward-soaring seabirds; or the evolutionary appearance of various states of dormancy, such as endothermic animals sacrificing high body temperature through modest (torpor) or severe (hibernation) curtailments to metabolic heat production. Another reversibly dormant state with energetic benefits is sleep.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology

UniBE Contributor:

Schmidt, Markus Helmut

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1879-0445

Publisher:

Cell Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

22 Jun 2022 11:17

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:21

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.004

PubMed ID:

35728548

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/170796

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/170796

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