The echidna manifests typical characteristics of rapid eye movement sleep

Nicol, Stewart C. and Andersen, Niels A. and Phillips, Nathan H. and Berger, Ralph J. (2000) The echidna manifests typical characteristics of rapid eye movement sleep. Neuroscience Letters, 283 (1). pp. 49-52. ISSN 0304-3940

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Abstract

The failure to identify rapid eye movement sleep (REMS) in an early study of the echidna at an unmeasured ambient temperature (T(a)) was unexpected, as its brain stem structures resemble those that generate REMS in other mammals. However, typical mammalian REMS was evident in echidnas exposed to several T(a)s. The parallel presence of REMS in birds points to its reptilian origin.

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Keywords:	Animal, Body Temperature, Brain, Circadian Rhythm, Echidna, Electroencephalography, Female, Male, Sleep, REM
Subjects:	270000 Biological Sciences > 270700 Ecology and Evolution > 270799 Ecology and Evolution not elsewhere classified 270000 Biological Sciences > 270600 Physiology > 270604 Comparative Physiology 270000 Biological Sciences > 270600 Physiology > 270603 Animal Physiology - Systems
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ID Code:	1032
Deposited By:	Associate Professor Stewart C. Nicol
Deposited On:	17 May 2007
Last Modified:	12 Feb 2008 10:10
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