A phase response curve for circannual rhythm in the varied carpet beetle Anthrenus verbasci

  • Author(s): Miyazaki, Y.; Nisimura, T.; Numata, H.
  • Title:
    A phase response curve for circannual rhythm in the varied carpet beetle Anthrenus verbasci
  • Journal Title: Journal of Comparative Physiology A
  • DOI: 10.1007/s00359-005-0012-6
  • URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-005-0012-6
  • Volume: 191
  • Issue: 10
  • Page(s): 883-887
  • Date: 2005-07-23
  • Abstract:
    We know that entrainment, a stable phase relationship with an environmental cycle, must be established for a biological clock to function properly. Phase response curves (PRCs), which are plots of phase shifts that result as a function of the phase of a stimulus, have been created to examine the mode of entrainment. In circadian rhythms, single-light pulse PRCs have been obtained by giving a light pulse to various phases of a free-running rhythm under continuous darkness. This successfully explains the entrainment to light-dark cycles. Some organisms show circannual rhythms. In some of these, changes in photoperiod entrain the circannual rhythms. However, no single-pulse PRCs have been created. Here we show the PRC to a long-day pulse superimposed for 4 weeks over constant short days in the circannual pupation rhythm in the varied carpet beetle Anthrenus verbasci. Because the shape of that PRC closely resembles that of the Type 0 PRC with large phase shifts in circadian rhythms, we suggest that an oscillator having a common feature in the phase response with the circadian clock, produces a circannual rhythm.
  • ISSN: 0340-7594
  • Document Type: Journal Article
  • Language: en
  • Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Links & Files

Not cited in World Catalogue of Dermestidae (J. Hava, 2025)
Dermestidae Atlas database is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License (DbCL).
The copyright for referenced articles and other external content remains with the original authors and publishers (if present, see specified license).