Sleep deprivation is a powerful tool to investigate sleep function and regulation. We describe a protocol to sleep deprive Drosophila using the Sleep Nullifying Apparatus, and to determine the extent of rebound sleep induced by deprivation.
Melnattur, K., Morgan, E., Duong, V., Kalra, A., Shaw, P. J. The Sleep Nullifying Apparatus: A Highly Efficient Method of Sleep Depriving Drosophila. J. Vis. Exp. (166), e62105, doi:10.3791/62105 (2020).