Nocturnal to diurnal switches with spontaneous suppression of wheel-running behavior in a subterranean rodent

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Tachinardi, Patricia ^a   Tøien, Øivind ^b   Valentinuzzi, Veronica S ^c   Buck, C Loren ^d   Oda, Gisele A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RESPIROMETRY; RODENT; TREADMILL EXERCISE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RODENTIA;

EID: 84949024161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140500     Document Type: Article

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