Date of Award
1979
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.)
Department
Graduate Studies
First Advisor
R. Tenaza
First Committee Member
Anne Funkhouser
Second Committee Member
Lee Christianson
Abstract
In this study, the locomotor activity of a nocturnal prosimian, the slow loris (Nycticebus coucang), was monitored under an experimentally varied light regime. During the process of reversing their day-night cycle, activity was monitored for a light-dark cycle roughly correlating to the external day-night, a free-running period in total darkness followed by a reversed day- night light regime.
Under constant conditions an endogenous cycle was shown to be present. During the artificial light regimes, locomotor activity became synchronized to the period of darkness.
Pages
45
Recommended Citation
Redman, Jimmy F. Jr.. (1979). Effect of light on the circadian activity rhythm of the slow loris, Nycticebus coucang. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1998
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