We’re excited to see Vassilis’s paper on chromobotia fish sleep is out! When he was young he had an aquarium of chromobotia fishes. They come from the inland waters in Indonesia on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Vassilis could show that these fish have a very consolidated sleep compared to zebrafish, they even lie down on their sides! Surprisingly, this fish species lacked a functional version of the orexin/hypocretin arousal neuropeptide. Lack of this gene causes narcolepsy in dogs and humans. However, it doesn’t cause narcolepsy in these fish.
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