Photoperiod alters affective responses in collared lemmings
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Photoperiod alters affective responses in collared lemmings.
This study examined photoperiodic regulation of affective behaviours in collared lemmings (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus). Male and female lemmings were housed in either long (LD 22:2), intermediate (LD 16:8), or short days (LD 8:16) for 9 weeks. Exposure to short days induced moult to a winter pelage and gonadal regression in male, but not female, lemmings. Lemmings housed in long days reduced anx...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioural Brain Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0166-4328
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.02.003