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Abstract
The circalunidian hypothesis that tidal rhythms in coastal animals are controlled by two lunar-day (c.24.8 h) oscillators coupled in antiphase is challenged. Rhythmic locomotor activity patterns of the shore crab Carcinus maenas, and probably of some other species too, are more economically explained by interacting circadian (c.24 h) and true circatidal (c.12.4 h) physiological oscillators. A testable hypothesis is proposed that combines a circadian promotor and a circatidal inhibitor of locomotor activity.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID: 8874979 DOI: 10.3109/07420529609012649
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chronobiol Int ISSN: 0742-0528 Impact factor: 2.877