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Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep

BACKGROUND: Sleep is a biological enigma. Despite occupying much of an animal's life, and having been scrutinized by numerous experimental studies, there is still no consensus on its function. Similarly, no hypothesis has yet explained why species have evolved such marked variation in their sle...

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Autores principales: Preston, Brian T, Capellini, Isabella, McNamara, Patrick, Barton, Robert A, Nunn, Charles L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19134175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-7