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Kronfeld-Schor N., Visser M.E, Salis L, van Gils J.A. Chronobiology of interspecific interactions in a changing world. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 372(1734), DOI 10.1098/rstb.2016.0248. [PDF]

Eynan M, Biram A, Mullokandov M, Kronfeld-Schor N, Paz-Cohen R, Menajem Ariely, R.  The transition from day-to-night activity is a risk factor for the development of CNS oxygen toxicity in the diurnal fat sand rat (Psammomys obesus).  Chronobiology International. 2017:1-9. [PDF]

Helm, B., Visser, M. E., Schwartz, W., Kronfeld-Schor, N., Gerkema, M., Piersma, T., & Bloch, G. (2017). Two sides of a coin: ecological and chronobiological perspectives of timing in the wild. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 372(1734), 20160246.
Levy O, Dayan T, Porter WP, and Kronfeld-Schor N. Foraging activity pattern is shaped by water loss rates in a diurnal desert rodent. American Naturalist, 188(2):205-18. 2016. [PDF]

 

Levy O, Dayan T, Porter WP, and Kronfeld-Schor N. Foraging activity pattern is shaped by water loss rates in a diurnal desert rodent. American Naturalist, 188(2):205-18. 2016. [PDF]

 

Bilu C., Einat H., Kronfeld-Schor, N. Utilization of Diurnal Rodents in the Research of Depression, Drug development research. 2016. [PDF]

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Ben-Hamo, M., K. Tal, R. Paz-Cohen, N. Kronfeld-Schor and H. Einat. "Differential effects of photoperiod length on depression- and anxiety-like behavior in female and male diurnal spiny mice." Physiol Behav 165: 1-6. 2016. [PDF]

Tal - Krivisky K, Kronfeld-Schor N. and Einat H.  Voluntary exercise enhances activity rhythms and ameliorates anxiety- and depression-like behaviors in the sand rats' model for circadian rhythms related mood changes. Physiology & Behavior.151:441-447. 2015.[PDF]

Stevenson TJ, Visser ME, Arnold W, Barrett P, Biello S, Dawson A, Denlinger DL, Dominoni D, Ebling FJ, Elton S, Evans N, Ferguson H, Foster RG, Hau M, Haydon DT, Hazlerigg DG, Heideman P, Hopcraft JGC, Jonsson NN, Kronfeld-Schor N, Kumar V, Lincoln GA, MacLeod R, Martin S, Martinez-Bakker, M, Nelson RJ, Reed T, Robinson JE, Rock D, Schwartz WJ, Steffan-Dewenter I, Tauber E, Thackeray SJ, Umstatter C, Yoshimura T, Helm B. Disrupted seasonal biology impacts health, food security, and ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 282: 20151453. 2015 [PDF]

 

Levin E, Plotnik B, Amichai A, Braulke L.J, Landau S, Yom-Tov Y, and Kronfeld-Schor N. Subtropical mouse-tailed bats use geothermally- heated caves for winter hibernation.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.  DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2781 2015. [PDF] 

 

Kronfeld-Schor N. Conservation physiology: A new challenge for thermal biologists. Temperature 1: 1–2. 2014. [PDF]

 

Barak O, and Kronfeld-Schor N. Activity rhythms and masking response in the diurnal fat sand rat under laboratory conditions. Chronobiology International 30(9):1123-34.  2013. [PDF]

 

Bilu C, and Kronfeld-Schor N. Effect of circadian phase and melatonin injection on anxiety-like behavior in nocturnal and diurnal rodents. Chronobiology International 30(6):828-36. 2013. [PDF]

 

Kronfeld-Schor N, Bloch G, Schwartz W.J. Animal Clocks: When Science meets Nature. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 10.1098/rspb.2013.1354. 2013. [PDF]

 

Kronfeld-Schor N, Dominoni D, De la Iglesia H, Levy O, Herzog E.D, Dayan T, Helfrich-Forster C. Chronobiology by moonlight. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.  280(1765):20123088. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.3088. 2013. [PDF]

 

Kronfeld-Schor N, and Dayan T. Thermal ecology, environments, communities, and global change: Energy intake and expenditure in endotherms. Annual reviews of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 44:461–80. 2013. [PDF]

 

Levin E, Yom-Tov Y, Hefetz A, and Kronfeld-Schor N. Changes in diet, body mass and fatty acids composition during pre-hibernation in a subtropical bat with relation to NPY and AgRP expression. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 183:157-66. 2013. [PDF]

 

Kronfeld-Schor N, and Einat H. Circadian rhythms and depression: Human Psychopathology and Animal Models.  Neuropharmacology 62:101-14. 2012. [PDF]

 

Levy O, Dayan T, Rotics S,and  Kronfeld-Schor, N. Foraging hierarchy, energy intake, and torpor: An individual-based field study of energy balancing in desert golden spiny mice. Ecology letters 15:1240-48. 2012. [PDF]

 

Krivisky K, Einat H, and Kronfeld-Schor N.  Effects of morning compared with evening bright light administration to ameliorated short-photoperiod induced depression- and anxiety-like behaviors in a diurnal rodent model. Journal of Neural Transmission. 119:1241-8. 2012. [PDF]

 

Hut R.A. Kronfeld-Schor N, Van der Vinne V, De la Iglesia H. In Search of a Temporal Niche: Environmental Factors. Progress in Brain Research. 199:281-304. 2012. [PDF]

 

Gutman, R., Dayan, T., Levy, O., Schubert, I. and Kronfeld-Schor, N. The effect of the lunar cycle on fecal cortisol metabolite levels and foraging ecology of nocturnally and diurnally active spiny mice. PLoS ONE 6(8): e23446. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023446. 2011. [PDF]

 

Levy, O., Dayan, T., and Kronfeld-Schor, N. Interspecific competition and torpor in golden spiny mice: Two sides of the energy acquisition coin. Integrative and Comparative Biology 51 (3): 441-8. 2011. [PDF] 

 

Krivisky, K., Ashkenazy, T., Kronfeld-Schor, N., and Einat, H. Antidepressants reverse short photoperiod-induced forced swim test depression-like behavior in the diurnal fat sand rat: further support for the utilization of diurnal rodents for modeling affective disorders. Neuropsychobiology, 63:191-6. 2011. [PDF]

 

Rotics, S., Dayan, T., and Kronfeld-Schor, N. Light masking in the field: An experiment with nocturnal and diurnal spiny mice under semi-natural field conditions. Chronobiology International 28:70-5, 2011. [PDF]

 

Levy, O., Dayan, T., and Kronfeld-Schor, N. Adaptive thermoregulation in golden spiny mice: The influence of season and food availability on body temperature. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84:175-84. 2011. [PDF]

 

Rotics S, Dayan T, and Kronfeld-Schor N. The effect of artificial night lighting on temporally partitioned spiny mice. Journal of Mammalogy, 92(1):159-68. 2011. [PDF] 

 

Cohen R, Kronfeld-Schor N, Ramanathan C, Baumgras A, and Smale L. The suprachiasmatic nucleus of Acomys Russatus and Acomys cahirinus, nocturnal and diurnal congeners. Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 75:9-22. 2010. [PDF] 

 

Cohen, R., Smale, L., Kronfeld-Schor, N. Masking and temporal niche switches in spiny mice.  Journal of Biological Rhythms 25:47-52. 2010. [PDF]

 

Flaisher-Grinberg S, Kronfeld-Schor N and Einat H. Models of mania: from facets to domains and from animal models to model animals. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 24: 437-8. 2010. [PDF]

 

Ashkenazy T, Einat H, Kronfeld-Schor N. Effects of bright light treatment on depression- and anxiety-like behaviors of diurnal rodents maintained on a short daylight schedule.  Behavioral Brain Research. 201:343-6. 2009. [PDF]

 

Cohen R, Smale L, and Kronfeld-Schor N. Plasticity in rhythms in general activity and body temperature in golden spiny mice. Chronobiology International. 26:430-446. 2009. [PDF]

 

Ashkenazy T, Einat H, and Kronfeld-Schor N. We are in the dark here: induction of depression- and anxiety-like behaviors in the diurnal fat sand rat, by short daylight or melatonin injections. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 12:83-93. 2008. [PDF]

 

Kronfeld-Schor N. and Dayan T. Activity patterns of rodents: the physiological ecology of biological rhythms.  Biological Rhythms Research. 39:193-211. 2008. [PDF]

 

Gutman, R, Hacmon-Keren R, Choshniak I, and Kronfeld-Schor N. Effect of food availability and leptin on the physiology and hypothalamic gene expression of the golden spiny mouse: a desert rodent that does not hoard food. American Journal of Physiology. 295: R2015-23. 2008. [PDF]  

 

Levy O, Dayan T, and Kronfeld-Schor, N. The relationship between the golden spiny mouse circadian system and its diurnal activity: An experimental field enclosures and laboratory study. Chronobiology International 24:599-613. 2007. [PDF]

 

Gutman R, Yosha D, Choshniak I, and Kronfeld-Schor N. Two strategies for coping with food shortage in desert golden spiny mice.  Physiology & Behavior. 90: 95-102. 2007. [PDF]

 

Einat H, Kronfeld-Schor N, and Eilam D. Sand rats see the light: Short photoperiod induces a depression - like response in a diurnal rodent. Behavioral Brain Research. 173:153-7. 2006. [PDF]

 

Roll U, Dayan T and Kronfeld-Schor N. On the role of phylogeny in determining activity patterns of rodents. Evolutionary Ecology.  20: 479-90. 2006. [PDF]

 

Cohen R, and Kronfeld-Schor N. Individual variability and photic entrainment of circadian rhythms in golden spiny mice.  Physiology & Behavior. 87: 563-574. 2006. [PDF]

 

Kronfeld-Schor, N. and Dayan, T. Partitioning of time as an ecological resource. Annual reviews of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 44:461–80 2003. [PDF]