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Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, January 2009
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Title
Parasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, January 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-9-7
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Brian T Preston, Isabella Capellini, Patrick McNamara, Robert A Barton, Charles L Nunn

Abstract

Sleep is a biological enigma. Despite occupying much of an animal's life, and having been scrutinized by numerous experimental studies, there is still no consensus on its function. Similarly, no hypothesis has yet explained why species have evolved such marked variation in their sleep requirements (from 3 to 20 hours a day in mammals). One intriguing but untested idea is that sleep has evolved by playing an important role in protecting animals from parasitic infection. This theory stems, in part, from clinical observations of intimate physiological links between sleep and the immune system. Here, we test this hypothesis by conducting comparative analyses of mammalian sleep, immune system parameters, and parasitism.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 1%
Brazil 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 189 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 47 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 44 22%
Student > Bachelor 20 10%
Student > Master 17 8%
Student > Postgraduate 11 5%
Other 35 17%
Unknown 30 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 100 49%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 7%
Neuroscience 11 5%
Social Sciences 10 5%
Psychology 9 4%
Other 17 8%
Unknown 43 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 September 2019.
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#1,268,348
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#296
of 3,714 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,711
of 183,423 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1
of 38 outputs
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