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Ontogeny of Circadian Rhythms

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Ontogeny is the life history of the individual organism, including its physical construction from a fertilized egg, the functional maturation of its behavioral, homeostatic and reproductive systems, and the decline of these systems with age. Because so many functions— behavioral, physiological, and biochemical—within an individual organism show circadian rhythmicity, the ontogeny of any particular function is likely to include the appearance of and changes in its rhythmic control. The ontogeny of circadian rhythms, as a set of biological questions, must, however, go beyond a simple cataloging of many rhythms and their ontogenic changes. Different circadian rhythms are not independent of one another. Whether controlled by a single circadian pacemaker or by many, overt rhythms are temporally organized with respect to each other and to the environment. The pacemakers, the pathways to overt rhythms, and the mechanisms of entrainment are all part of the “circadian system” that underlies not only internal temporal organization of multiple functions but also the remarkable ability of organisms to measure, precisely and adaptively, the passage of astronomical time.

The original experimental work reported here was supported by NIH grant HD-03803 to Michael Menaker.

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