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Circannual Clocks: Annual Biological Rhythms documents the Proceedings of a Satellite Symposium of the 140th Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in San Francisco, California, February 25, 1974. The purpose of the symposium was to summarize the present state of knowledge on endogenous annual rhythms (circannual clocks), and to point out their biological significance and importance. The presentations included studies on the following: the circannual rhythms of an arthropod, the cave crayfish, Orconectes pellucidus inermis, and a cnidarian, Campanularia flexuosa; the occurrence, manifestation, and importance of circannual rhythms in birds with different migratory habits; and the importance of circannual rhythms in hibernating mammals. Also covered are the relationships between circannual rhythms and endogenous lunar and tidal rhythms; circannual rhythm of reproduction in male European starlings; the adaptational value of internal annual clocks in birds; the expression and suppression of the circannual antler growth cycle in deer; and circannual rhythms in man.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Circannual Clocks
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Participants
- Preface
- Dedication to Professor William Rowan
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PROFESSOR ROWAN
- CHAPTER 1. RELATION OF LIGHT TO BIRD MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES, PROFESSOR ROWAN'S PAPER OF 1925, REPRINTED FROM NATURE
- CHAPTER 2. CIRCANNUAL RHYTHMICITY IN INVERTEBRATES
- CHAPTER 3. CIRCANNUAL RHYTHMS IN BIRDS WITH DIFFERENT MIGRATORY HABITS
- CHAPTER 4. CIRCANNUAL RHYTHMICITY IN HIBERNATING MAMMALS
- CHAPTER 5. COMMENT
- CHAPTER 6. EVIDENCES FOR BLOOD-BORNE SUBSTANCES WHICH TRIGGER OR IMPEDE NATURAL MAMMALIAN HIBERNATION
- CHAPTER 7. EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL COMPONENTS OF THE MECHANISM CONTROLLING REPRODUCTIVE CYCLES IN DRAKES
- CHAPTER 8. RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CIRCANNUAL RHYTHMS AND ENDOGENOUS LUNAR AND TIDAL RHYTHMS
- CHAPTER 9. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL REFLECTIONS OF CIRCANNUAL RHYTHMICITY IN THE EUROPEAN HEDGEHOG AND MAN
- CHAPTER 10. CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM OF REPRODUCTION IN MALE EUROPEAN STARLINGS (STEMM VULGARIS)
- CHAPTER 11. THE ADAPTATIONAL VALUE OF INTERNAL ANNUAL CLOCKS IN BIRDS
- CHAPTER 12. EXPRESSION AND SUPPRESSION OF THE CIRCANNUAL ANTLER GROWTH CYCLE IN DEER
- CHAPTER 13. ASPECTS OF CIRCANNUAL RHYTHMS IN MAN
- CHAPTER 14. CIRCANNUAL RHYTHMS IN CIRCADIAN PERSPECTIVE
- Subject Index