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- 1972, B. S. Moshkov, G. A. Odumanova-Dunaeva, "Difference of light processes disturbing the dark phase of the actinorhythmic response of nyctophilic and nyctophobic plants", Doklady Akad. Nauk SSSR, 203, number 3, 714 (quoted in 1987, Soviet Plant Physiology, volume 34, issues 4-6, page 653)
- Nyctophilic plants require a long continuous period of darkness in the course of the 24-h day for their normal development.
- 1993, Archives des sciences:
- In summary, the cell cycle of Chlorella rubescens cultivated in auto- and mixotrophy is characterized by a photophilic phase during which the cellular diameter, dry weight and protein and chlorophyll content increase, and by a nyctophilic phase during which cell division occurs simultaneously with a restructuration of the cellular dry weight and protein and chlorophyll content.
- 2016, Conny Cernik, In Revolt →ISBN, page 30:
- OUR AFFAIR HAS NEVER BEEN STARLESS,
- 'CAUSE OUR HEARTS ARE NYCTOPHILIC,
- IN AWE OF UNDERWORLDLY DARKNESS.
- (Can we date this quote?), patent application US 6093720, Trans apovincaminic acid ester derivatives:
- The memory test was accomplished on NMRI mice weighing 25 to 28 g each by using the passive avoidance, a method based on the genetically determined nyctophilic behavior of rodents.