ArticleScience advances2022
Chimera states among synchronous fireflies.
Article in Science advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Time after time - circadian clocks through the lens of oscillator theory.FEBS letters · 2026Review
- How synchronized human networks escape local minima.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Embracing firefly flash pattern variability with data-driven species classification.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Systems of oscillators often converge to a state of synchrony when sufficiently interconnected. Twenty years ago, the mathematical analysis of models of coupled oscillators revealed the possibility for complex phases that exhibit a coexistence of synchronous and asynchronous clusters, known as "chimera states." Beyond their recurrence in theoretical models, chimeras have been observed under specifically designed experimental conditions, yet their emergence in nature has remained elusive. Here, we report evidence for the occurrence of chimeras in a celebrated realization of natural synchrony: fireflies. In video recordings of
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