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Short-day response in Djungarian hamsters of different circadian phenotypes.
Chronobiology international - 1 May 2012
Schöttner Konrad, Schmidt Maren, Hering Anke, Schatz Juliane, Weinert Dietmar
Abstract excerpt
In Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) bred at the authors' institute, a certain number of animals show activity patterns incompatible with proper entrainment of their endogenous circadian pacemaker to the environmental light-dark (LD) cycle. Even though the activity-offset in these animals is stably coupled to "light-on," activity-onset is increasingly delayed, leading to a compression of the activity time...
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