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11 - Fishing for sleep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2010

By
I. V. Zhdanova
Edited by
Patrick McNamara ,
Robert A. Barton  and
Charles L. Nunn
Patrick McNamara
Affiliation:
Boston University
Robert A. Barton
Affiliation:
University of Durham
Charles L. Nunn
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Summary

Fish comprise about half of the known vertebrate species. The vast majority of the extant 30,000 currently known species of fish are bony fishes. They occupy diverse habitats in fresh and salty waters of rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans. The dynamic adaptations of fish to these distinctly different environments – including complex reproductive, migratory, and life-cycle adaptations – are truly remarkable. Their adaptive strategies include periods of rest that, in different fish species, can be spent lying quietly on the sea floor, floating, or swimming.

With fishes as with other phylogenetically earlier animals discussed in this book, the decision as to whether they actually sleep or just rest quietly must be based on a combination of behavioral features, electrophysiological patterns of brain activity, and molecular processes that we associate with sleep in mammals. Sleep is thought to be present when the animal is in a species-specific posture of behavioral quiescence and exhibits elevated arousal thresholds as well as rapid reversibility of behavioral quiescence after appropriate stimulation (Campbell & Tobler, 1984). The majority of fish species thus far studied display these behavioral features of sleep accompanied by physiological quietness, including reduced heart rate and respiration (Karmanova, 1975; Karmanova, Churnosov, & Popova, 1976; Karmanova, Titkov, & Popova, 1976; Peyrethon & Dusan-Peyrethon, 1967; Shapiro & Hepburn, 1976; Tobler & Borbély, 1985).

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Evolution of Sleep
Phylogenetic and Functional Perspectives
 , pp. 238 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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