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Photic Entrainment in Mammals

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Circadian Clocks

Part of the book series: Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology ((HBNE,volume 12))

Abstract

The rotating earth imposes a rhythm of more or less 24 hours upon environmental conditions. The resulting changes in physical environment are drastic, but predictable. Organisms time their behavior in synchrony with the environmental changes and show clear rhythmic patterns in activity, temperature, food intake, etc. For a long time it was assumed that the daily timing of animal behavior was dictated by the 24-hour light—dark cycle. However, when Johnson (1939) recorded mice that were kept in constant darkness, he noticed that their activity pattern was still rhythmic, but the period of the cycle was now slightly different from 24 hours. He therefore concluded that the origin of circadian rhythms should be sought inside animals, and postulated a “self-winding” physiologic clock.

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