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SUBMITTER: Helfrich-Forster C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027873 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Helfrich-Förster Charlotte C Bertolini Enrico E Menegazzi Pamela P
The European journal of neuroscience 20181022 1
Life on earth is assumed to have developed in tropical regions that are characterized by regular 24 hr cycles in irradiance and temperature that remain the same throughout the seasons. All organisms developed circadian clocks that predict these environmental cycles and prepare the organisms in advance for them. A central question in chronobiology is how endogenous clocks changed in order to anticipate very different cyclical environmental conditions such as extremely short and long photoperiods ...[more]