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Developmental Rhythms

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The Cellular Aspects of Biorhythms

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During the last decades a wealth of data has accumulated on biological rhythms, not least the 24-hour cycle [66] In spite of this, little is known about the internal mechanisms of its control by external factors. We know that both the phasing and frequency can be manipulated under suitable conditions and that such mechanisms are remarkably universal, applying within the range from unicellular organisms and plants to higher vertebrates. We do not know exactly how the control is exerted. This depends on the high complexity of the process, which involves multichannel information carried by highly nonlinear structures and an interaction of spontaneous biological oscillators in the target with the input periods. Biological rhythms are no forced oscillations; instead the organism actively selects what information in the input it chooses to react to, amplifies this and then interacts with it; sometimes almost creating a coupled oscillator situation. It is this handling of the information in the input which is but poorly understood.

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Petrén, T., Sollberger, A. (1967). Developmental Rhythms. In: von Mayersbach, H. (eds) The Cellular Aspects of Biorhythms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88394-1_3

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