Former FUNEVOL engineer Paul-Antoine Libourel and Anthony Herrel just had a paper accepted in PLOS Biology on the evolution of sleep in vertebrates with a special focus on lizards !
Here is the title:
Libourel, P-A., B. Barrillot, S. Arthaud, B. Massot, A-L. Morel, O. Beuf, A. Herrel* and P-H. Luppi* (in press) Partial homologies between sleep states in lizards, mammals, and birds suggest a complex evolution of sleep states in amniotes. PLOS Biol. *co last authors.