Female mice exhibit less overall variance, with a higher proportion of structured variance, than males at multiple timescales of continuous body temperature and locomotive activity records
Highlights Female mice do not show more overall variance in temperature or activity than do males. When measuring rodents, phase of the daily rhythm accounts for a substantial amount of the overall variance. Female mice show less unstructured variance than do male mice, and for both sexes, time of d...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Biology of Sex Differences |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13293-022-00451-1 |