Title: Kinase signalling in excitatory neurons regulates sleep quantity and depth
Authors: Staci J. Kim*, Noriko Hotta-Hirashima*, Fuyuki Asano*, Tomohiro Kitazono*,
Kanako Iwasaki*, Shinya Nakata*, Haruna Komiya*, Nodoka Asama*, Taeko Matsuoka, Tomoyuki Fujiyama, Aya Ikkyu, Miyo Kakizaki, Satomi Kanno, Jinhwan Choi, Deependra Kumar, Takumi Tsukamoto, Asmaa Elhosainy, Seiya Mizuno, Shinichi Miyazaki, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Fumihiro Sugiyama, Satoru Takahashi, Yu Hayashi, Masafumi Muratani, Qinghua Liu, Chika Miyoshi, Masashi Yanagisawa & Hiromasa Funato
* co-first authors

[Message from Shinya]
I'm very happy to contribute to this great work as one of co-first authors. We are getting close to unveil the mysterious question ""What is sleepiness?"" step by step. Hopefully, I would like to keep contributing to answer this mystery.

[Message from Shinichi]
I was honored to join the project. As in the 2016 paper, I was responsible for the experimentation and analysis of a nematode homolog of a gene found in the Yanagisawa/Funato lab. I look forward to continuing to uncover the evolutionarily conserved regulatory mechanisms of sleep using C. elegans.

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