Название: Insect Chronobiology
Автор: Numata Hideharu, Tomioka Kenji
Издательство:Springer
Год:2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц:361
Размер: 12,7 МБ
Язык: English

This book reviews the physiological mechanisms of diverse insect clocks, including circadian clock, lunar clock, tidal clock, photoperiodism, circannual rhythms and others. It explains the commonality and diversity of insect clocks, focusing on the recent advances in their molecular and neural mechanisms. In the history of chronobiology, insects provided important examples of diverse clocks. The first report of animal photoperiodism was in an aphid, and the time-compensated celestial navigation was first shown in the honeybee. The circadian clock was first localized in the brain of a cockroach. These diverse insect clocks also have some common features which deserve to be reviewed in a single book. The central molecular mechanism of the circadian clock, i.e., the negative feedback loop of clock genes, was proposed in Drosophila melanogaster in the 1990s and later became the subject of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017. Thereafter, researches on the molecular and neural mechanisms in diverse insect clocks other than the Drosophila circadian clock also advanced appreciably. Various new methods including RNAi, NGS, and genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9 have become applicable in these researches. This book comprehensively reviews the physiological mechanisms in diverse insect clocks in the last two decades, which have received less attention than the Drosophila circadian clock. The book is intended for researchers, graduate students, and highly motivated undergraduate students in biological sciences, especially in entomology and chronobiology.
Historical Survey of Chronobiology with Reference to Studies in Insects
Insect Circadian Rhythms
General Feature of Circadian Rhythms
Neural and Molecular Mechanisms of Entrainment
Molecular Mechanism of the Circadian Clock
Neurocircuitry of Circadian Clocks
Peripheral Circadian Clock
Circabidian Rhythm
Circadian Behavioral Rhythms in Social Insects
Environmental Adaptation and Evolution of Circadian Clocks
Other Types of Insect Rhythms and Photoperiodsim
Lunar and Tidal Rhythms and Clocks
Circannual Rhythms
General Features of Photoperiodism
Molecular Mechanisms of Photoperiodism
Neural Mechanism of Photoperiodism
Seasonal Timer in Aphids
Time-Compensated Celestial Navigation