Do predators shape the sleep of their prey?

该项目旨在通过研究历史上暴露在不同捕食压力下的入侵和本地老鼠物种，来研究恐惧/压力如何影响睡眠。 它希望在生物和健康科学方面产生新的知识，也有助于控制害虫。 这种史无前例的研究睡眠的方法将提供对睡眠的环境和遗传决定因素的关键见解，使我们能够更好地了解睡眠、睡眠的表达和灵活性以及对压力的反应。 除了提供睡眠进化的基本答案外，该项目还将提供重大好处，如入侵物种管理的新视角，并可能揭示压力相关睡眠障碍治疗的新目标。

This project aims to investigate how sleep is affected by fear/stress by studying invasive and native rat species, historically exposed to different predation pressures. It expects to generate new knowledge in biological and health sciences, also helping controlling pests. This unprecedented approach to studying sleep will provide key insights on the environmental and genetic determinants of sleep, allowing us to better understand sleep, its expression and flexibility, and response to stress. More than providing fundamental answers on the evolution of sleep, this project will provide significant benefits such as new perspectives on invasive species management, and may also reveal new targets for treatments to stress related sleep disorders.