The circadian system constrains an organism's palette of behaviors to portions of the solar
day appropriate to its ecological niche. The central light-entrained clock in the …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. Jay Rosenblatt effectively promoted
research on rabbit maternal behavior through his interaction with colleagues in Mexico …

Circadian rhythms influence most of our life activities, notably getting up and going to sleep
every day. The new edition of this book delves into the mechanisms surrounding how these …

The ability to tell time relative to predictable feeding opportunities has a long history of
research, going back more than 100 years with behavioral observations of honeybees and …

In the newborn rabbit, the light entrainable circadian system is immature and once a day
nursing provides the primary timing cue for entrainment. In advance of the mother's arrival …

Adult rabbits show robust circadian rhythms of: nursing, food and water intake, hard faeces
excretion, locomotion, body temperature, blood and intraocular pressure, corticosteroid …

Rhythmic feeding in rabbit pups is a natural model to study food entrainment because,
similar to rodents under a schedule of food restriction, these animals show food-anticipatory …

In mammals, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), the master circadian clock, is mainly
synchronized to the environmental light/dark cycle. SCN oscillations are maintained by a …

Activity-dependent synapse plasticity is important for the establishment of neuron wiring in
the central nervous system, particularly in the context of sensory processing. In the visual …

Melanopsin is the photopigment of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells that
mediate non-visual responses to light. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze …