Interspecific contact affects phase response and activity in Desert hamsters

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 288-295

  Scheibler, Elke ^a   Wollnik, Franziska ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interspecific competition; Nonphotic stimulus; Period length; Phase response curve; Running wheel activity; Sympatric species

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERBIL; HAMSTER; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; GERBILLINAE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 68049088659     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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