ArticleBiology letters2022
Energy conservation characterizes sleep in sharks.
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- An electrophysiological correlate of sleep in a shark.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2024Article
- The interplay between sleep and ecophysiology, behaviour and responses to environmental change in fish.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Review
- Why study sleep in flatworms?Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2024Review
- Persistence of Nocturnality in Decapitated and Bisected Flatworms.Journal of biological rhythms · 2023Article
- New Perspectives on Sleep Regulation by Tea: Harmonizing Pathological Sleep and Energy Balance under Stress.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Energy conservation characterizes sleep in sharks.Biology letters · 2022Article
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Abstract
Sharks represent the earliest group of jawed vertebrates and as such, they may provide original insight for understanding the evolution of sleep in more derived animals. Unfortunately, beyond a single behavioural investigation, very little is known about sleep in these ancient predators. As such, recordings of physiological indicators of sleep in sharks have never been reported. Reduced energy expenditure arising from sustained restfulness and lowered metabolic rate during sleep have given rise to the hypothesis that sleep plays an important role for energy conservation. To determine whether this idea applies also to sharks, we compared metabolic rates of draughtsboard sharks (
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