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Do Ultradian Oscillators Underlie the Circadian Clock in Drosophila?

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Ultradian rhythms are being discovered to be nearly as ubiquitous as circadian rhythms. Here, we define ultradian periods as the range between about 1 h and 18 h. Oscillations faster than that reflect metabolic processes (Lloyd and Edwards 1984; Edmunds 1988), and 18 h is an hour less than the mean period of the shortest clearly circadian clock mutant in Drosophila melanogaster (hereafter simply Drosophila: Konopka and Benzer 1971; Hall and Kyriacou 1990). Ultradian oscillations have been found in organisms as disparate as unicells (Lloyd et al. 1982; Michel and Hardeland 1985) and mammals (Daan and Aschoff 1981). They occur in both the presence and the absence of normal circadian rhythms, and now are found also in animals that lack circadian rhythms but do exhibit tidal or lunar periodicity (Dowse and Palmer 1990, 1992).

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  1. School of Pure and Applied Biology, University of Wales College of Cardiff, PO Box 915, Cardiff, CF1 3TL, Wales

    David Lloyd BSc, PhD, DSc (Professor of Microbiology) (Professor of Microbiology)

  2. C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, 23708 Harbor Vista Drive, Malibu, CA, 90265, USA

    Ernest L. Rossi PhD (Clinical Psychologist) (Clinical Psychologist)

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Dowse, H.B., Ringo, J.M. (1992). Do Ultradian Oscillators Underlie the Circadian Clock in Drosophila?. In: Lloyd, D., Rossi, E.L. (eds) Ultradian Rhythms in Life Processes. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1969-2_6

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