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. 2014 May 15;9(5):e97412. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097412

Table 2. Main effects of exercise on circadian behavioral phenotypes.

Exercise main-effects
Characteristic Wheel Open Wheel Locked d.f. t or Z p
IR Behavioral - LD
Onset (ZT) 11.82±0.05 11.75±0.08 38 1.338 0.189
OnsetError (h) 0.201±0.019 0.243±0.021 38 −2.605 0.013
Offset (ZT) 0.936±0.171 0.844±0.143 38 0.943 0.352
OffsetError (h) 0.283±0.020 0.355±0.021 38 −2.5 0.017
Duration (h) 13.07±0.213 13.06±0.207 37 0.047 0.963
Power (AU) 1611.6±72.90 1336.1±48.59 38 2.847 0.004
% Light Activity 50.12±1.18 48.32±2.08 38 1.341 0.188
Average Activity (counts/min) 1.238±0.113 1.196±0.081 38 0.626 0.535
Total Activity (counts/day) 1803.5±165.1 1734.1±116.4 38 0.703 0.486
Periodic Component Ratio (AU) 0.310±0.03 0.267±0.03 38 2.349 0.024
IR Behavioral - DD
Period (h) 23.74±0.022 23.71±0.022 38 2.036 0.049
OnsetError (h) 0.420±0.042 0.454±0.042 38 −0.579 0.566
OffsetError (h) 0.512±0.026 0.615±0.030 38 −2.662 0.011
Duration (h) 14.64±0.285 14.54±0.309 38 0.535 0.595
Power (AU) 1307.4±74.41 1076.5±41.65 38 −2.805 0.005
Average Activity (counts/min) 1.209±0.071 1.114±0.056 38 1.822 0.076
Total Activity (counts/day) 1736.5±101.8 1596.8±79.3 38 1.849 0.072
Periodic Component Ratio (AU) 0.395±0.03 0.383±0.03 37 0.655 0.516

Activity monitored by infrared motion detector in LD and DD. Significance is ascribed at p ≤0.05.