Urban-like night illumination reduces melatonin release in European blackbirds (Turdus merula): Implications of city life for biological time-keeping of songbirds

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Dominoni, Davide M ^a,b,c   Goymann, Wolfgang ^a   Helm, Barbara ^c   Partecke, Jesko ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Circadian rhythms; GnIH; Light at night; Locomotor activity; Melatonin; Timing of reproduction; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERI; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 84884862708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-10-60     Document Type: Article

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