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For instance, if the sampling rate in a locomotor activity experiment is once per hour, then it would be possible to evaluate periodicities down to two hours, but no shorter, because a minimum of two points is required to describe a cycle.
Figure 9aand 9bshow averaged raw locomotor activity data for flies that received a 5-minute pulse of light (Figure 9a) or control flies that were not perturbed by exogenous stimuli (Figure 9b).
Drosophila locomotor activity rhythms are typically measured from 5 days to 2 weeks and in mice such measurements are often presented for a month or longer [ 56 ] . The behavioral rhythm has the form of a square wave with intervals of activity followed by intervals of inactivity (in contrast to the sinusoidal waveform of the luciferase rhythm).
But such comparisons are complicated because it is not clear what it means to compare locomotor activity counts against counts of bioluminescence.
Thus, in both nocturnal and diurnal species, per expression in the cortex is maximal in conjunction with the major waking episode [ 37 49 50 ] . Under conditions where the phase (methamphetamine administration, restricted feeding) or distribution (circadian splitting) of locomotor activity is altered, per expression in the cortex parallels the overt rhythm of wakefulness, whereas the circadian oscillation of per gene expression in the SCN remains unaffected [ 49 51 52 ] . Thus, in contrast to its role in the SCN, PER protein in the cortex is not a component of a self-sustaining circadian oscillator [ 53 ] . Instead, per expression in the cortex seems to the follow sleep-wake history, consistent with the hypothesis that it is related to homeostatic regulation of sleep.
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