ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology2016
Life in a dark biosphere: a review of circadian physiology in "arrhythmic" environments.
Review in Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.
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- Sporadic feeding regulates robust food entrainable circadian clocks in blind cavefish.iScience · 2024Article
- Evaluating the Adaptive Fitness of Circadian Clocks and their Evolution.Journal of biological rhythms · 2024Review
- Fantastic beasts and how to study them: rethinking experimental animal behavior.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Blind fish have cells that see light.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Categorizing the geometry of animal diel movement patterns with examples from high-resolution barn owl tracking.Movement ecology · 2023Article
- Evidence of separate influence of moon and sun on light synchronization of mussel's daily rhythm during the polar night.iScience · 2023Article
- Differential transcriptomic responses to heat stress in surface and subterranean diving beetles.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Keep Your Mask On: The Benefits of Masking for Behavior and the Contributions of Aging and Disease on Dysfunctional Masking Pathways.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Social synchronization of circadian rhythms with a focus on honeybees.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Molecular Evolution of clock Genes in Vertebrates.Journal of molecular evolution · 2021Article
- Repeated evolution of circadian clock dysregulation in cavefish populations.PLoS genetics · 2021Article
- Telling the Seasons Underground: The Circadian Clock and Ambient Temperature Shape Light Exposure and Photoperiodism in a Subterranean Rodent.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Most of the life with which humans interact is exposed to highly rhythmic and extremely predictable changes in illumination that occur with the daily events of sunrise and sunset. However, while the influence of the sun feels omnipotent to surface dwellers such as ourselves, life on earth is dominated, in terms of biomass, by organisms isolated from the direct effects of the sun. A limited understanding of what life is like away from the sun can be inferred from our knowledge of physiology and ecology in the light biosphere, but a full understanding can only be gained by studying animals from the dark biosphere, both in the laboratory and in their natural habitats. One of the least understood aspects of life in the dark biosphere is the rhythmicity of physiology and what it means to live in an environment of low or no rhythmicity. Here we describe methods that may be used to understand rhythmic physiology in the dark and summarise some of the studies of rhythmic physiology in "arrhythmic" environments, such as the poles, deep sea and caves. We review what can be understood about the adaptive value of rhythmic physiology on the Earth's surface from studies of animals from arrhythmic environments and what role a circadian clock may play in the dark.
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