Sleep and wake in rhythmic versus arrhythmic chronotypes of a microphthalmic species of African mole rat (Fukomys mechowii)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 162-183

  Bhagwandin, Adhil ^a   Gravett, Nadine ^a   Lyamin, Oleg I ^c   Oosthuizen, Maria K ^b   Bennett, Nigel C ^b   Siegel, Jerome M ^c   Manger, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathyergidae; Non rapid eye movement; Rapid eye movement; Rodentia; Slow wave sleep

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLE RAT; PHYSIOLOGY; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; WAKEFULNESS; ZAMBIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; MOLE RATS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; TIME PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS; ZAMBIA;

BATHYERGIDAE; COETOMYS ANSELLI; CRYPTOMYS HOTTENTOTUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 80053520926     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330360     Document Type: Article

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