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Activity patterns of rodents: the physiological ecology of biological rhythms

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Pages 193-211 | Published online: 05 Mar 2008

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Dhanananajay Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar Soni, Noga Kronfeld-Schor & Muniyandi Singaravel. (2020) Wheel-running activity rhythms and masking responses in the diurnal palm squirrel, Funambulus pennantii. Chronobiology International 37:12, pages 1693-1708.
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M.K. Oosthuizen. (2020) Temporal flexibility in activity rhythms of a diurnal rodent, the ice rat (Otomys sloggetti). Chronobiology International 37:6, pages 824-835.
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Dorela D. Shuboni-Mulligan, Breyanna L. Cavanaugh, Anne Tonson, Erik M. Shapiro & Andrew J. Gall. (2019) Functional and anatomical variations in retinorecipient brain areas in Arvicanthis niloticus and Rattus norvegicus: implications for the circadian and masking systems. Chronobiology International 36:11, pages 1464-1481.
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Claire P. Röpke Ferrando & Natália Oliveira Leiner. (2018) Above-ground activity patterns of the semi-fossorial spiny rat Clyomys laticeps. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 30:4, pages 373-383.
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Dhanananajay Kumar & Muniyandi Singaravel. (2014) Phase and period responses to short light pulses in a wild diurnal rodent, Funambulus pennanti. Chronobiology International 31:3, pages 320-327.
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Orly Barak & Noga Kronfeld-Schor. (2013) Activity Rhythms and Masking Response in the Diurnal Fat Sand Rat Under Laboratory Conditions. Chronobiology International 30:9, pages 1123-1134.
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Carmel Bilu & Noga Kronfeld-Schor. (2013) Effects of circadian phase and melatonin injection on anxiety-like behavior in nocturnal and diurnal rodents. Chronobiology International 30:6, pages 828-836.
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David J. Merritt, Essie M. Rodgers, Ami F. Amir & Arthur K. Clarke. (2012) Same Temporal Niche, Opposite Rhythmicity: Two Closely Related Bioluminescent Insects With Opposite Bioluminesce Propensity Rhythms. Chronobiology International 29:10, pages 1336-1344.
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Shay Rotics, Tamar Dayan, Ofir Levy & Noga Kronfeld-Schor. (2011) Light Masking in the Field: An Experiment with Nocturnal and Diurnal Spiny Mice Under Semi-natural Field Conditions. Chronobiology International 28:1, pages 70-75.
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Citlalli Fuentes-Granados, Manuel Miranda-Anaya, Jazmín Samario-Román, Enrique Moreno-Sáenz, Agustín Carmona-Castro & RenéJ. Cárdenas-Vázquez. (2010) Circadian locomotor activity and response to different light conditions in the Volcano mouse, Neotomodon alstoni (Merriam, 1898). Biological Rhythm Research 41:4, pages 269-278.
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Rotem Cohen, Laura Smale & Noga Kronfeld‐Schor. (2009) Plasticity of Circadian Activity and Body Temperature Rhythms in Golden Spiny Mice. Chronobiology International 26:3, pages 430-446.
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Vivek Verma, Priyoneel Basu & Muniyandi Singaravel. (2023) Impact of a Single Episode of Different Intensity of White Light Pulse at Night on Masking Response in the Diurnal Mammal, Funambulus pennantii. Chronobiology in Medicine 5:3, pages 108-116.
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Rui Zhou, Rui Hua, Zhuangsheng Tang & Limin Hua. (2023) Daily and Seasonal Activity Patterns of Plateau Pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China, and Their Relationship with Weather Condition. Animals 13:10, pages 1689.
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Emmanuel Fabián Ruperto, Josefina Menéndez, Paula Andrea Taraborelli, Federico Omar Scattolón & Paola Lorena Sassi. (2022) Behavioral responses of two small‐sized rodents, Phyllotis vaccarum and Abrothrix andina , to energy challenges of high‐altitude habitats in the Andes Mountains . Ethology 129:3, pages 117-132.
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Anindita Bidisha Chatterjee, Kalyansundaram Sankar, Yadvendradev Vikramsinh Jhala & Qamar Qureshi. (2023) Spatio-temporal patterns of co-occurrence of tigers and leopards within a protected area in central India. Web Ecology 23:1, pages 17-34.
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Carmel Bilu, Haim Einat, Paul Zimmet & Noga Kronfeld-Schor. (2022) Circadian rhythms-related disorders in diurnal fat sand rats under modern lifestyle conditions: A review. Frontiers in Physiology 13.
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Patricia Tachinardi. 2022. Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior 2069 2072 .
Karissa O. Lear, Nicholas M. Whitney, John J. Morris & Adrian C. Gleiss. (2021) Temporal niche partitioning as a novel mechanism promoting co-existence of sympatric predators in marine systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288:1954, pages 20210816.
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Jorge M. Lobo & Eva Cuesta. (2021) Seasonal variation in the diel activity of a dung beetle assemblage. PeerJ 9, pages e11786.
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Yu Ji, Shuai Yuan, Heping Fu, Suwen Yang, Fan Bu, Xin Li & Xiaodong Wu. (2021) Activity strategy and pattern of the Siberian jerboa ( Orientallactaga sibirica ) in the Alxa desert region, China . PeerJ 9, pages e10996.
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Emily K. Elderbrock, Michaela Hau & Timothy J. Greives. (2021) Sex steroids modulate circadian behavioral rhythms in captive animals, but does this matter in the wild?. Hormones and Behavior 128, pages 104900.
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Lily Yan, Laura Smale & Antonio A. Nunez. (2018) Circadian and photic modulation of daily rhythms in diurnal mammals. European Journal of Neuroscience 51:1, pages 551-566.
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Paul J. Jacobs, N.C. Bennett & M.K. Oosthuizen. (2020) Locomotor activity in field captured crepuscular four-striped field mice, Rhabdomys dilectus and nocturnal Namaqua rock mice, Micaelamys namaquensis during a simulated heat wave. Journal of Thermal Biology 87, pages 102479.
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Carmel Bilu, Haim Einat, Orly Barak, Paul Zimmet, Vicktoria Vishnevskia-Dai, Amanda Govrin, Galila Agam & Noga Kronfeld-Schor. (2019) Linking type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiac hypertrophy and depression in a diurnal animal model. Scientific Reports 9:1.
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Carmel Bilu, Paul Zimmet, Vicktoria Vishnevskia-Dai, Haim Einat, Galila Agam, Ehud Grossman & Noga Kronfeld-Schor. (2018) Diurnality, Type 2 Diabetes, and Depressive-Like Behavior. Journal of Biological Rhythms 34:1, pages 69-83.
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Ofir Levy, Tamar Dayan, Warren P. Porter & Noga Kronfeld-Schor. (2019) Time and ecological resilience: can diurnal animals compensate for climate change by shifting to nocturnal activity?. Ecological Monographs 89:1, pages e01334.
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Patricia Tachinardi. 2019. Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior 1 3 .
Noga Kronfeld-Schor, Marcel E. Visser, Lucia Salis & Jan A. van Gils. (2017) Chronobiology of interspecific interactions in a changing world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372:1734, pages 20160248.
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Barbara Helm, Marcel E. Visser, William Schwartz, Noga Kronfeld-Schor, Menno Gerkema, Theunis Piersma & Guy Bloch. (2017) Two sides of a coin: ecological and chronobiological perspectives of timing in the wild. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372:1734, pages 20160246.
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Samantha R. Anderson & John J. Wiens. (2017) Out of the dark: 350 million years of conservatism and evolution in diel activity patterns in vertebrates. Evolution 71:8, pages 1944-1959.
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Rebecca L. Diete, Paul D. Meek, Christopher R. Dickman, Allan Lisle & Luke K.-P. Leung. (2017) Diel activity patterns of northern Australian small mammals: variation, fixity, and plasticity. Journal of Mammalogy 98:3, pages 848-857.
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Danielle L. Levesque, Julia Nowack & Clare Stawski. (2016) Modelling mammalian energetics: the heterothermy problem. Climate Change Responses 3:1.
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Márcio Leite de Oliveira, Pedro Henrique de Faria Peres, Alexandre Vogliotti, Francisco Grotta-Neto, Allyson Diaz Koester de Azevedo, Josi Fernanda Cerveira, Guilherme Batista do Nascimento, Nelson José Peruzzi, Juan Carranza & José Maurício Barbanti Duarte. (2016) Phylogenetic signal in the circadian rhythm of morphologically convergent species of Neotropical deer. Mammalian Biology 81:3, pages 281-289.
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Katy Tal-Krivisky, Noga Kronfeld-Schor & Haim Einat. (2015) Voluntary exercise enhances activity rhythms and ameliorates anxiety- and depression-like behaviors in the sand rat model of circadian rhythm-related mood changes. Physiology & Behavior 151, pages 441-447.
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Pedro Monterroso, Paulo Célio Alves & Pablo Ferreras. (2013) Catch Me If You Can: Diel Activity Patterns of Mammalian Prey and Predators. Ethology 119:12, pages 1044-1056.
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Noga Kronfeld-SchorTamar Dayan. (2013) Thermal Ecology, Environments, Communities, and Global Change: Energy Intake and Expenditure in Endotherms. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 44:1, pages 461-480.
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Xinrong Wan, Xinjie Zhang, Yingjun Huo & Guiming Wang. (2013) Weather entrainment and multispectral diel activity rhythm of desert hamsters. Behavioural Processes 99, pages 62-66.
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Matěj Lövy, Jan Šklíba & Radim Šumbera. (2013) Spatial and Temporal Activity Patterns of the Free-Living Giant Mole-Rat (Fukomys mechowii), the Largest Social Bathyergid. PLoS ONE 8:1, pages e55357.
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Ofir Levy, Tamar Dayan, Shay Rotics & Noga Kronfeld-Schor. (2012) Foraging sequence, energy intake and torpor: an individual-based field study of energy balancing in desert golden spiny mice. Ecology Letters 15:11, pages 1240-1248.
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Katy Krivisky, Haim Einat & Noga Kronfeld-Schor. (2012) Effects of morning compared with evening bright light administration to ameliorate short-photoperiod induced depression- and anxiety-like behaviors in a diurnal rodent model. Journal of Neural Transmission 119:10, pages 1241-1248.
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Ofir Levy, Tamar Dayan, Noga Kronfeld-Schor & Warren P. Porter. (2012) Biophysical Modeling of the Temporal Niche: From First Principles to the Evolution of Activity Patterns. The American Naturalist 179:6, pages 794-804.
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Barbara M. Tomotani, Danilo E. F. L. Flores, Patrícia Tachinardi, José D. Paliza, Gisele A. Oda & Verônica S. Valentinuzzi. (2012) Field and Laboratory Studies Provide Insights into the Meaning of Day-Time Activity in a Subterranean Rodent (Ctenomys aff. knighti), the Tuco-Tuco. PLoS ONE 7:5, pages e37918.
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I. van der Merwe, M. K. Oosthuizen, N. C. Bennett & C. T. Chimimba. (2011) Circadian rhythms of locomotor activity in captive eastern rock sengi. Journal of Zoology 286:4, pages 250-257.
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Noga Kronfeld-Schor & Haim Einat. (2012) Circadian rhythms and depression: Human psychopathology and animal models. Neuropharmacology 62:1, pages 101-114.
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Alun T.L. Hughes & Hugh D. Piggins. 2012. The Neurobiology of Circadian Timing. The Neurobiology of Circadian Timing 305 336 .
Roelof A. Hut, Noga Kronfeld-Schor, Vincent van der Vinne & Horacio De la Iglesia. 2012. The Neurobiology of Circadian Timing. The Neurobiology of Circadian Timing 281 304 .
Alexandra Castillo-Ruiz, Matthew J. Paul & William J. Schwartz. 2012. The Neurobiology of Circadian Timing. The Neurobiology of Circadian Timing 267 280 .
Rebecca J. Fox & David R. Bellwood. (2011) Unconstrained by the clock? Plasticity of diel activity rhythm in a tropical reef fish, Siganus lineatus. Functional Ecology 25:5, pages 1096-1105.
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O. Levy, T. Dayan & N. Kronfeld-Schor. (2011) Interspecific Competition and Torpor in Golden Spiny Mice: Two Sides of the Energy-Acquisition Coin. Integrative and Comparative Biology 51:3, pages 441-448.
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Roee Gutman, Tamar Dayan, Ofir Levy, Iris Schubert & Noga Kronfeld-Schor. (2011) The Effect of the Lunar Cycle on Fecal Cortisol Metabolite Levels and Foraging Ecology of Nocturnally and Diurnally Active Spiny Mice. PLoS ONE 6:8, pages e23446.
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I. van der Merwe, M. K. Oosthuizen, C. T. Chimimba & N. C. Bennett. (2011) Circadian rhythms of locomotor activity in the reddish‐grey musk shrew (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from South Africa. Journal of Zoology 284:2, pages 124-132.
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Ricardo Pita, António Mira & Pedro Beja. (2011) Circadian activity rhythms in relation to season, sex and interspecific interactions in two Mediterranean voles. Animal Behaviour 81:5, pages 1023-1030.
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Anumodh Pazhoor Mammen & Anita Jagota. (2011) Immunocytochemical evidence for different patterns in daily rhythms of VIP and AVP peptides in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of diurnal Funambulus palmarum. Brain Research 1373, pages 39-47.
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E. M. VieiraL. C. BaumgartenG. PaiseR. G. Becker. (2010) Seasonal patterns and influence of temperature on the daily activity of the diurnal neotropical rodent Necromys lasiurus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 88:3, pages 259-265.
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Rotem Cohen, Laura Smale & Noga Kronfeld-Schor. (2010) Masking and Temporal Niche Switches in Spiny Mice. Journal of Biological Rhythms 25:1, pages 47-52.
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M. Vonshak, T. Dayan & N. Kronfeld-Schor. (2009) Arthropods as a prey resource: Patterns of diel, seasonal, and spatial availability. Journal of Arid Environments 73:4-5, pages 458-462.
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