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  • Title: Demand-feeding rhythm in rainbow trout and European catfish. Synchronisation by photoperiod and food availability.
    Author: Bolliet V, Aranda A, Boujard T.
    Journal: Physiol Behav; 2001 Jul; 73(4):625-33. PubMed ID: 11495668.
    Abstract:
    The effect of light-dark (LD) cycle and food availability was tested on the demand-feeding rhythm of single and groups of rainbow trout and European catfish. Under LD and free food access, most trout and catfish displayed, respectively, a diurnal and a nocturnal pattern of demand-feeding activity, whereas a few fish or groups of fish switched from diurnalism to nocturnalism or vice versa. In both species held under constant lighting conditions and a restricted feeding (RF) cycle (RF 20:4), the demand-feeding rhythm rapidly synchronised to food availability. The demand-feeding rhythm was under endogenous control and, in rainbow trout, periodogram analysis suggested the existence of two oscillators, one synchronised by photoperiod (LEO) and the other by food (FEO). When submitted to both LD and RF cycles, LD was, at least in the rainbow trout, the dominant zeitgeber synchronising the demand-feeding rhythm. In catfish, food availability rapidly synchronised demand-feeding rhythm. Finally, in both species, the synchronisation of single fish to LD or feed availability appeared slower than that of groups of fish, supporting the idea that social organisation affects the circadian activity in fish.
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