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Annual, lunar, and tidal clocks [electronic resource] : patterns and mechanisms of nature's enigmatic rhythms / Hideharu Numata, Barbara Helm, editors.
Numata, Hideharu, editor.; Helm, Barbara, 1966- editor.
2014
QH527
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Title Annual, lunar, and tidal clocks [electronic resource] : patterns and mechanisms of nature's enigmatic rhythms / Hideharu Numata, Barbara Helm, editors.
ISBN 9784431552611 electronic book
4431552618 electronic book
9784431552604
Published Tokyo : Springer, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Call Number QH527
Dewey Decimal Classification 571.7/7
Summary There is more to biological rhythms than circadian clocks. This book aims at promoting the exciting potential of a deeper understanding of circannual, circatidal, and circalunar clocks. It highlights new developments, summarizes existing knowledge, and integrates different perspectives with the tools and ideas of diverse fields of current biology. For predominantly pragmatic reasons, research in recent decades was mostly concerned with circadian clocks. Clocks on other timescales, however, have been largely neglected and therefore still appear "enigmatic". Thanks to the rapid development of methods in molecular biology as well as in ecology, we are now able to re-approach these clocks. Laboratories around the world are showing fresh interest and substantial progress is being made in many independent projects. The book's two sections address the moon-derived circatidal, circasemilunar, and lunar cycles on the one hand (10 chapters), and the sun-derived circannual cycles on the other (6 chapters). This work brings together authors with an expansive array of expertise and study systems, ranging from tidal cycles of marine invertebrates to annual cycles of birds and mammals, and from behavioral to genetic and epigenetic backgrounds. While great challenges remain to be mastered, the book aims at conveying the excitement of unraveling, broadly, the rhythms of life.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 3, 2015).
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Helm, Barbara, 1966- editor.
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PART I. Tidal, Semilunar, and Lunar Rhythms
1 Timing in Tidal, Semilunar, and Lunar Rhythms
2 Circatidal Rhythms and Their Entrainment to the Tidal Cycle in Insects
3 Daily and Tidal Rhythms in Intertidal Marine Invertebrates
4 Circatidal and Circadian Rhythms in Crustacean Swimming Behavior
5 Coral Spawning Behavior and Timing
6 Lunar Periods in the Annual Reproductive Cycles of Marine Invertebrates from Cold Subtidal and Deep-Sea Environments
7 Local Adaptations of Circalunar and Circadian Clocks: The Case of Clunio marinus
8 Circadian and Circalunar Clock Interactions and the Impact of Light in Platynereis dumerilii
9 Lunar Clock in Fish Reproduction
10 The Clock-Work Worms: Diversity and Function of Clock Expression in Marine Polychaete Worms
PART II. Circannual Rhythms.-11 Circannual Rhythms: History, Present Challenges, Future Directions
12 Stem Cell Regulation of Circannual Rhythms
13 Seasonality of Life Histories in Tropical Birds: Circannual Rhythms and Zeitgeber
14 The Circannual Clock in the European Hamster: How Is It Synchronized by Photoperiodic Changes?
15 Circannual Clocks in Tropical Bats and Heritable Variation in Seasonal Reproductive Timing in Temperate Zone Mice
16 Circannual Rhythms in Insects.

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