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Section I: History, Concepts, Evolution and Basic Features of Biological Clock
Chapter 1: Biological Timekeeping: Complexity and Diversity in the Natural World
Chapter 2: What is a Measured Rhythm
Chapter 3: Basic Principles Underlying Biological Oscillations and their Entrainment
Chapter 4: Significance of Waveform in Biological Oscillations
Chapter 5: Evolution and Adaptive Significance of Biological Clocks
Section II: Animal Clocks: Complexity and Diversity
Chapter 6: The Drosophila Clock System
Chapter 7: The Fish Clock System
Chapter 8: The Reptilian Clock System: Circadian Clock, Extraretinal Photoreception and Clock-Depending Celestial Compass Mechanisms in Reptiles
Chapter 9: The Avian Clock System
Chapter 10: The Mammalian Neural Circadian System: From Molecules to Behavior
Section III: Human Clocks: Implications in Regulation of Sleep and Cognition; Shift Work
Chapter 11: Circadian Rhythms Versus Daily Patterns in Human Physiology
Chapter 12: Effects of Light on Circadian Rhythms in Humans
Chapter 13: Clock, Sleep and Cognition
Chapter 14: Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder
Mechanisms and Treatment Approaches
Chapter 15: Shift Work and Human Health
Section IV: Clock Interactions Within and Between Individual and the Natural World
Chapter 16: Interaction Between Central and Peripheral Clocks
Chapter 17: Cells and Circuits for Circadian Photoentrainment in Mammals
Chapter 18: Mechanisms of Non-Photic Entrainment
Section V: Circadian Clocks, Metabolism and Immune Functions
Chapter 19: Circadian Clocks and Metabolism.-Chapter 20: Clock, Hourglass and Physiology
Chapter 21: Circadian Clocks and Immune Functions
Section VI: Pineal, Melatonin and Biological Timekeeping
Chapter 22: Melatonin: The Vertebrate Clock Hormone
Chapter 23: Pineal, Melatonin and Biological Timekeeping
Chapter 24: Melatonin and Seasonal Plasticity
Section VII: Circannual Rhythms, Photoperiodism and Seasonal Behaviours
Chapter 25: Circannual Rhythms
Chapter 26: Seasonal Changes in Brain and Behavior
Chapter 27: Photoperiodic Regulation of Initiation and Termination of Breeding in Subtropical Birds
Chapter 28: Molecular Mechanism Regulating Seasonality
Chapter 29: Epigenetic Regulation of Seasonality
Chapter 30: Insights into the Regulation of Spring Migration in Songbirds.
Chapter 1: Biological Timekeeping: Complexity and Diversity in the Natural World
Chapter 2: What is a Measured Rhythm
Chapter 3: Basic Principles Underlying Biological Oscillations and their Entrainment
Chapter 4: Significance of Waveform in Biological Oscillations
Chapter 5: Evolution and Adaptive Significance of Biological Clocks
Section II: Animal Clocks: Complexity and Diversity
Chapter 6: The Drosophila Clock System
Chapter 7: The Fish Clock System
Chapter 8: The Reptilian Clock System: Circadian Clock, Extraretinal Photoreception and Clock-Depending Celestial Compass Mechanisms in Reptiles
Chapter 9: The Avian Clock System
Chapter 10: The Mammalian Neural Circadian System: From Molecules to Behavior
Section III: Human Clocks: Implications in Regulation of Sleep and Cognition; Shift Work
Chapter 11: Circadian Rhythms Versus Daily Patterns in Human Physiology
Chapter 12: Effects of Light on Circadian Rhythms in Humans
Chapter 13: Clock, Sleep and Cognition
Chapter 14: Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder
Mechanisms and Treatment Approaches
Chapter 15: Shift Work and Human Health
Section IV: Clock Interactions Within and Between Individual and the Natural World
Chapter 16: Interaction Between Central and Peripheral Clocks
Chapter 17: Cells and Circuits for Circadian Photoentrainment in Mammals
Chapter 18: Mechanisms of Non-Photic Entrainment
Section V: Circadian Clocks, Metabolism and Immune Functions
Chapter 19: Circadian Clocks and Metabolism.-Chapter 20: Clock, Hourglass and Physiology
Chapter 21: Circadian Clocks and Immune Functions
Section VI: Pineal, Melatonin and Biological Timekeeping
Chapter 22: Melatonin: The Vertebrate Clock Hormone
Chapter 23: Pineal, Melatonin and Biological Timekeeping
Chapter 24: Melatonin and Seasonal Plasticity
Section VII: Circannual Rhythms, Photoperiodism and Seasonal Behaviours
Chapter 25: Circannual Rhythms
Chapter 26: Seasonal Changes in Brain and Behavior
Chapter 27: Photoperiodic Regulation of Initiation and Termination of Breeding in Subtropical Birds
Chapter 28: Molecular Mechanism Regulating Seasonality
Chapter 29: Epigenetic Regulation of Seasonality
Chapter 30: Insights into the Regulation of Spring Migration in Songbirds.