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CHRONOBIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 631-640Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/07420520500180116
Keywords
bat; circadian; entrainment; Hipposideros speoris; non-parametric; twilight
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The study aimed to determine the influence of repeated natural dawn and dusk twilight pulses in entraining the circadian flight activity rhythm of the microchiropteran bat, Hipposideros speoris, free-running in constant darkness in a natural cave. The bats were exposed to repeated dawn or dusk twilight Pulses at eight circadian phases. All bats exposed to dawn twilight pulses were entrained by advancing transients, and the stable entrainment was reached when the onset of activity occurred about 12h before the lights-on of the pulses, irrespective of the initial phase at which the bats were exposed to twilight. All bats exposed to dusk twilight pulses, however, were entrained by delaying transients, and the stable entrainment was reached when the onset of activity occurred about 1.6h after the lights-on of the pulses. The entrainment caused by dawn and dusk twilight pulses is discussed in the context of the postulated two photoreceptors: the short wavelength sensitive (S) photoreceptors mediating etrainment via dust. twilight, and the medium wavelength sensitive (M) photoreceptors mediating entrainment via dawn twilight.
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