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Entrainment of circadian rhythms of locomotor activity by ambient temperature cycles in the dromedary camel.

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In the dromedary camel, a well-adapted desert mammal, daily ambient temperature (Ta)-cycles have been shown to synchronize the central circadian clock. Such entrainment has been demonstrated by examining two circadian outputs, body temperature and melatonin rhythms. Locomotor activity (LA), another circadian output not yet investigated in the camel, may provide further information on such specific entrainment. To verify if daily LA is an endogenous rhythm and whether the desert Ta-cycle can entrain it, six dromedaries were first kept under total darkness and constant-Ta. Results showed that the LA rhythm free runs with a period of 24.8–24.9 h. After having verified that the light–dark cycle synchronizes LA, camels were subjected to a Ta-cycle with warmer temperatures during subjective days and cooler temperatures during subjective nights. Results showed that the free-running LA rhythm was entrained by the Ta-cycle with a period of exactly 24.0 h, while a 12 h Ta-cycle phase advance induced an inversion of the LA rhythm and advanced the acrophase by 9 h. Similarly, activity onset and offset were significantly advanced. All together, these results demonstrate that the Ta-cycle is a strong zeitgeber, able to entrain the camel LA rhythm, hence corroborating previous results concerning the Ta non-photic synchronization of the circadian master clock.

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Biologie animale
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hal-03013423 , version 1 (18-11-2020)

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Hicham Farsi, Mohamed R Achaâban, Mohammed Piro, Beatrice Bothorel, Mohammed Ouassat, et al.. Entrainment of circadian rhythms of locomotor activity by ambient temperature cycles in the dromedary camel.. Scientific Reports, 2020, 10 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41598-020-76535-y⟩. ⟨hal-03013423⟩

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