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SUBMITTER: Fuchikawa T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4879263 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160523
Circadian rhythms in behaviour and physiology are important for animal health and survival. Studies with individually isolated animals in the laboratory have consistently emphasized the dominant role of light for the entrainment of circadian rhythms to relevant environmental cycles. Although in nature interactions with conspecifics are functionally significant, social signals are typically not considered important time-givers for the animal circadian clock. Our results challenge this view. By st ...[more]