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SUBMITTER: Oren M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4476465 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oren Matan M Tarrant Ann M AM Alon Shahar S Simon-Blecher Noa N Elbaz Idan I Appelbaum Lior L Levy Oren O
Scientific reports 20150617
Endogenous circadian clocks are poorly understood within early-diverging animal lineages. We have characterized circadian behavioral patterns and identified potential components of the circadian clock in the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis: a model cnidarian which lacks algal symbionts. Using automatic video tracking we showed that Nematostella exhibits rhythmic circadian locomotor activity, which is persistent in constant dark, shifted or disrupted by external dark/light cues and ma ...[more]