Circadian rhythmicity is involved in photoperiodic time measurement in the aphidMegoura viciae

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences - Tập 49 - Trang 711-713 - 1993
M. Vaz Nunes1, J. Hardie1
1Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, UK

Tóm tắt

The photoperiodic clock in the vetch aphidMegoura viciae is generally accepted to be based on a non-circadian mechanism or “hourglass”, as no evidence has been found for the involvement of the circadian system in the photoperiodic response. By using a recently-devised protocol which discriminates between single and repeated night length measurement, we demonstrate here that long-night measurement inMegoura is executed in a repetitive way, and thus that its photoperiodic clock is based on a circadian oscillator after all. However, it is also apparent that the determination of short nights is not repetitive.

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