To sleep or not to sleep: the ecology of sleep in artificial organisms
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>All animals thus far studied sleep, but little is known about the ecological factors that generate differences in sleep characteristics across species, such as total sleep duration or division of sleep into multiple bouts across the...
Main Authors: | Nunn Charles L, McNamara Patrick, Acerbi Alberto |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-05-01
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Series: | BMC Ecology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/8/10 |
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