%0 Journal Article
%T To Sleep, Perchance to Survive?
%J -
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2019.02.006
%X Multicellular organisms exist in a sea of microbes. Survival is enabled by an immense diversity of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) that maintain homeostasis with the microbiota. During pathogen infection, fruit fly survival varies directly with sleep. A newly-identified fruit fly sleep-regulator is also an AMP (Toda et al. Science 2019;363:509¨C515). Its characterization may clarify the association between sleep and surviving infection
%U https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(19)30041-9