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Neural and Endocrine Control of Circadian Rhythmicity in Invertebrates

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The importance of the nervous and neuroendocrine systems in the control of daily rhythms in invertebrates did not escape the notice of early workers in the field. As early as 1911, Demoll suggested that color changes in arthropods were controlled by a periodic phenomenon in the nervous system. Kalmus, in 1938, concluded that the eyestalk neurosecretory system was the source of control of the crayfish activity rhythm, and Welsh (1941) proposed that “a regular variation in the activity of nervous inhibitory centers” was the major factor in the hormonal control of the rhythmic migration of retinal shielding pigments in the crayfish. In the past two decades, a large body of evidence has been obtained that firmly establishes the proposition, implicit in much of this early work, that it is the central nervous and neuroendocrine systems that are responsible for the generation and coordination of the circadian rhythmicity of many behavioral and physiological functions.

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Page, T.L. (1981). Neural and Endocrine Control of Circadian Rhythmicity in Invertebrates. In: Aschoff, J. (eds) Biological Rhythms. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6552-9_9

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