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Urban-like night illumination reduces melatonin release in European blackbirds (Turdus merula): implications of city life for biological time-keeping of songbirds

INTRODUCTION: Artificial light-at-night is known to affect a broad array of behaviours and physiological processes. In urbanized bird species, light-at-night advances important biological rhythms such as daily cycles of activity/rest and timing of reproduction, but our knowledge of the underlying ph...

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Autores principales: Dominoni, Davide M, Goymann, Wolfgang, Helm, Barbara, Partecke, Jesko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3850952/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24090446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-60