Adaptations for life in the Arctic: evidence that melatonin rhythms in reindeer are not driven by a circadian oscillator but remain acutely sensitive to environmental photoperiod

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Journal of Pineal Research

• Publication date

  2007-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/j.1600-079X.2007.00476.xPMID 17803527
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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