Circadian chronotypes among wild-captured west Andean octodontids

Biological Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 209-220

  Ocampo Garcés, Adrián ^a,b,c   Mena, Wilson ^a   Hernández, Felipe ^c   Cortés, Nelson ^c   Palacios, Adrián G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Chronotype; Circadian rhythms; Octodon; Octodontids; Spalacopus cyanus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONOTROPISM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; HABITUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MASKING; NONHUMAN; OCTODON; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REST; RODENT; RUNNING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPECIES COMPARISON; WILD SPECIES;

OCTODON; OCTODON BRIDGESI; OCTODON DEGUS; OCTODONTIDAE; RODENTIA; SPALACOPUS CYANUS;

EID: 33746628885     PISSN: 07169760     EISSN: 07176287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602006000200003     Document Type: Article

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