Field and laboratory studies provide insights into the meaning of day-time activity in a subterranean rodent (Ctenomys aff. knighti), the Tuco-Tuco

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Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tomotani, Barbara M ^a   Flores, Danilo E F L ^a   Tachinardi, Patrícia ^a   Paliza, José D ^b   Oda, Gisele A ^a   Valentinuzzi, Verônica S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Centro Regional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Transferencia Tecnologia   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; FEMALE; FIELD STUDY; FORAGING; LABORATORY TEST; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NOCTURNAL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; RODENT; RUNNING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUNLIGHT; TUCO TUCO; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ECOSYSTEM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBSERVATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CTENOMYIDAE; CTENOMYS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBSERVATION; PHOTOPERIOD; RODENTIA;

EID: 84861385685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037918     Document Type: Article

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