Overview
Provides a state-of-the-art assessment of non-circadian rhythms
Presents the work of key authors in the field
Considers the three highly topical rhythmic scales jointly for the first time
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Tidal, Semilunar, and Lunar Rhythms
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Front Matter
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Circannual Rhythms
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Annual, Lunar, and Tidal Clocks
Book Subtitle: Patterns and Mechanisms of Nature's Enigmatic Rhythms
Editors: Hideharu Numata, Barbara Helm
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55261-1
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55260-4Published: 03 February 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56132-3Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55261-1Published: 20 January 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 360
Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Ecology, Cell Biology, Animal Physiology, Neurosciences, Behavioral Sciences