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Circadian Systems in Invertebrates (Including an Evolutionary Perspective of Circadian Signal Transmission in the Visual System)

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The formal properties and the functional organization of circadian systems in invertebrates are described and partly exemplified with results of anatomical and physiological investigations on circadian clocks in the visual system of the scorpion Androctonus australis. Some ideas concerning phylogenetic aspects of this system in arthropods are discussed under consideration of an efferent neurosecretory fiber system that, at least in chelicerates, controls visual sensitivity.

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Fleissner, G., Stevenson, R.D., Fleissner, G. (1987). Circadian Systems in Invertebrates (Including an Evolutionary Perspective of Circadian Signal Transmission in the Visual System). In: Scharrer, B., Korf, HW., Hartwig, HG. (eds) Functional Morphology of Neuroendocrine Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72886-0_7

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