Evidence for the adaptive significance of circadian rhythms

S Yerushalmi, RM Green - Ecology letters, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Circadian (∼ 24 h) clock regulated biological rhythms have been identified in a wide range
of organisms from prokaryotic unicellular cyanobacteria to higher mammals. These rhythms …

Evolution of time-keeping mechanisms: early emergence and adaptation to photoperiod

RA Hut, DGM Beersma - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Virtually all species have developed cellular oscillations and mechanisms that synchronize
these cellular oscillations to environmental cycles. Such environmental cycles in biotic (eg …

Mutation at the circadian clock gene EARLY MATURITY 8 adapts domesticated barley (Hordeum vulgare) to short growing seasons

S Faure, AS Turner, D Gruszka… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The circadian clock is an autonomous oscillator that produces endogenous biological
rhythms with a period of about 24 h. This clock allows organisms to coordinate their …

Adaptations to polar life in mammals and birds

AS Blix - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
This Review presents a broad overview of adaptations of truly Arctic and Antarctic mammals
and birds to the challenges of polar life. The polar environment may be characterized by …

Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds

M Bulla, M Valcu, AM Dokter, AG Dondua… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The behavioural rhythms of organisms are thought to be under strong selection, influenced
by the rhythmicity of the environment,,,. Such behavioural rhythms are well studied in …

The cost of circadian desynchrony: evidence, insights and open questions

AC West, DA Bechtold - Bioessays, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Coordinated daily rhythms are evident in most aspects of our physiology, driven by internal
timing systems known as circadian clocks. Our understanding of how biological clocks are …

GPS Based Daily Activity Patterns in European Red Deer and North American Elk (Cervus elaphus): Indication for a Weak Circadian Clock in Ungulates

EP Ensing, S Ciuti, FALM de Wijs, DH Lentferink… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Long-term tracking using global positioning systems (GPS) is widely used to study
vertebrate movement ecology, including fine-scale habitat selection as well as large-scale …

Circadian and metabolic effects of light: implications in weight homeostasis and health

SA Plano, LP Casiraghi, P Garcia Moro… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Daily interactions between the hypothalamic circadian clock at the suprachiasmatic nucleus
(SCN) and peripheral circadian oscillators regulate physiology and metabolism to set …

(Re) inventing the circadian feedback loop

SA Brown, E Kowalska, R Dallmann - Developmental cell, 2012 - cell.com
For 20 years, researchers have thought that circadian clocks are defined by feedback loops
of transcription and translation. The rediscovery of posttranslational circadian oscillators in …

The circadian and photoperiodic clock of the pea aphid

FS Colizzi, D Martínez-Torres… - Journal of Comparative …, 2024 - Springer
The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, is a paradigmatic photoperiodic species that exhibits a
remarkable annual life cycle, which is tightly coupled to the seasonal changes in day length …