N Sören Häfker, Laurenz Holcik, Audrey M Mat, Aida Ćorić, Karim Vadiwala, Isabel Beets, Alexander W Stockinger, Carolina E Atria, Stefan Hammer, Roger Revilla-I-Domingo, Liliane Schoofs, Florian Raible, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
The circadian clock controls behavior and metabolism in various organisms. However, the exact timing and strength of rhythmic phenotypes can vary significantly between individuals of the same species. This is highly relevant for rhythmically complex marine environments where organismal rhythmic diversity likely permits the occupation of different microenvironments. When investigating circadian locomotor behavior of Platynereis dumerilii, a model system for marine molecular chronobiology, we found strain-specific, high variability between individual worms...
April 2024: PLoS Biology