The environment is everything that isn't me: molecular mechanisms and evolutionary dynamics of insect clocks in variable surroundings
Circadian rhythms are oscillations in behavior, metabolism and physiology that have a period close to 24h. These rhythms are controlled by an internal pacemaker that evolved under strong selective pressures imposed by environmental cyclical changes, mainly of light and temperature. The molecular nat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Physiology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2015.00400/full |