On the chronobiology of cohabitation.
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol
; 72: 615-21, 2007.
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ABSTRACT
Social regulation of animal circadian rhythms may enable individuals in a population to temporally synchronize or segregate their activities within the community. Relatively little is known about the mechanisms for such interindividual temporal adaptations or how the circadian system might be involved. The literature suggests that actual prolonged cohabitation might lead to robust effects on the rhythmicity of cohoused individuals but that these effects are not easily reproduced by indirect or pulsatile social contacts. We have begun to study the conditions under which such cohabitation effects might be revealed in the laboratory, and we present and discuss initial data that cohousing pairs of golden hamsters can result in a persistent change in the free-running circadian period of one of the two hamsters of the pair. We believe that analyzing the societal level of temporal organization, and ultimately dissecting its underlying mechanisms, will enrich our understanding of the circadian clock and its role in establishing ecological communities.
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Assunto principal:
Comportamento Social
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Fenômenos Cronobiológicos
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Animals
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol
Ano de publicação:
2007
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos