2011/01/21 by Kristin Tessmar‐Raible, Florian Raible, Enrique Arboleda · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Neuroscience · #Cephalopods and Marine Biology #Marine and coastal plant biology #Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/bies.201000096
openalex publication_date 2011/01/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The marine ecosystem is governed by a multitude of environmental cycles, all of which are linked to the periodical recurrence of the sun or the moon. In accordance with these cycles, marine species exhibit a variety of biological rhythms, ranging from circadian and circatidal rhythms to circalunar and seasonal rhythms. However, our current molecular understanding of biological rhythms and clocks is largely restricted to solar-controlled circadian and seasonal rhythms in land model species. Here, we discuss the first molecular data emerging for circalunar and circatidal rhythms and present selected species suitable for further molecular analyses. We argue that a re-focus on marine species will be crucial to understand the principles, interactions and evolution of rhythms that govern a broad range of eukaryotes, including ourselves.