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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2019

The Effect of Melatonin on Locomotor Behavior and Muscle Physiology in the Sea Cucumber

Kui Ding, Libin Zhang, Tao Zhang, Hongsheng Yang, Richard Brinkman

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Kui DingCAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
Libin ZhangCAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
Tao ZhangCAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
Hongsheng YangCAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
Richard BrinkmanAustralian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology · CNAustralian Institute of Marine Science · AUInstitute of Oceanology · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melatonin is a highly conserved hormone in evolutionary history. It occurs in numerous organisms and plays a role in the endocrine and immune systems. Locomotor behavior is a basic behavior in animals and is an important indicator of circadian rhythms, which are coordinated by the nervous and endocrine systems. To date, the effect of melatonin on locomotor behavior has been studied in vertebrates, including syrian hamsters, sparrows, rats, zebrafish, goldfish, and flatworms. However, there have been few studies of the effects of melatonin on locomotor behavior in marine invertebrates. The goals of present study were to show the existence of melatonin in the sea cucumber

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fatty acid oxidationlocomotor behaviormelatoninoxidative phosphorylationphysiological mechanismsea cucumber

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PMID30941049
PMCPMC6433841
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