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Exposure of male ebible dormice all year round to an unwarying photoperiod and warm temperature disrupted their biological cycles; hibernation was almost completely suppressed, and short lived infradian cycles of body weight, and of plasma testosterone and thyroxine were measured instead of the normal annual patten.
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Jallageas, M., Assenmacher, I. Suppression of annual plasma testosterone and thyroxine cycles in the edible dormouseGlis glis under constant photoperiod at 24°C. Experientia 42, 171–173 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01952452
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