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Effects of the Light-Dark Cycle and Scheduled Feeding on Behavior and Reproductive Rhythms of the Cyprinodont Fish, Medaka, Oryzias latipes
Experientia
  • D. N. Weber, Medical College of Wisconsin; Milwaukee Public Museum
  • Richard E. Spieler, Milwaukee Public Museum
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-1987
Keywords
  • Circadian rhythms,
  • Zeitgebers,
  • Oryzias latipes,
  • Meal-feeding,
  • Behavior,
  • Environmental factors
Abstract

Medaka were maintained on a 16∶8 light-dark cycle and fed once daily on one of 5 different feeding schedules. The daily rhythm of agonistic behavior rapidly entrained to the scheduled feeding time and maintained this entrainment during a 3-day starvation period. In contrast the daily rhythms of egg laying and courtship stayed entrained to the L:D cycle regardless of the feeding schedule. Thus, temporal integration of this fish with its daily environment can involve multistimuli which concurrently and differentially entrain externally expressed circadian systems.

DOI
10.1007/BF02126355
Comments

©Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 1987

Additional Comments
NIH grant #: AM 25191; NIEHS ES grant #: 01985
Citation Information
D. N. Weber and Richard E. Spieler. "Effects of the Light-Dark Cycle and Scheduled Feeding on Behavior and Reproductive Rhythms of the Cyprinodont Fish, Medaka, Oryzias latipes" Experientia Vol. 43 Iss. 6 (1987) p. 621 - 624 ISSN: 0014-4754
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/richard-spieler/62/