Biological Timekeeping: Clocks, Rhythms and Behaviour - Kumar, Vinod; SpringerLink (Online service) (New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2017)
Section I: History, Concepts, Evolution and Basic Features of Biological Clock -- Chapter 1: Biological Timekeeping: Complexity and Diversity in the Natural World -- Chapter 2: What is a Measured Rhythm -- Chapter 3: Basic Principles Underlying Biological Oscillations and their Entrainment -- Chapter 4: Significance of Waveform in Biological Oscillations -- Chapter 5: Evolution and Adaptive Significance of Biological Clocks -- Section II: Animal Clocks: Complexity and Diversity -- Chapter 6: The Drosophila Clock System -- Chapter 7: The Fish Clock System -- Chapter 8: The Reptilian Clock System: Circadian Clock, Extraretinal Photoreception and Clock-Depending Celestial Compass Mechanisms in Reptiles -- Chapter 9: The Avian Clock System -- Chapter 10: The Mammalian Neural Circadian System: From Molecules to Behavior -- Section III: Human Clocks: Implications in Regulation of Sleep and Cognition; Shift Work -- Chapter 11: Circadian Rhythms Versus Daily Patterns in Human Physiology -- Chapter 12: Effects of Light on Circadian Rhythms in Humans -- Chapter 13: Clock, Sleep and Cognition -- Chapter 14: Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder - Mechanisms and Treatment Approaches -- Chapter 15: Shift Work and Human Health -- Section IV: Clock Interactions Within and Between Individual and the Natural World -- Chapter 16: Interaction Between Central and Peripheral Clocks -- Chapter 17: Cells and Circuits for Circadian Photoentrainment in Mammals -- Chapter 18: Mechanisms of Non-Photic Entrainment -- Section V: Circadian Clocks, Metabolism and Immune Functions -- Chapter 19: Circadian Clocks and Metabolism.-Chapter 20: Clock, Hourglass and Physiology -- Chapter 21: Circadian Clocks and Immune Functions -- Section VI: Pineal, Melatonin and Biological Timekeeping -- Chapter 22: Melatonin: The Vertebrate Clock Hormone -- Chapter 23: Pineal, Melatonin and Biological Timekeeping -- Chapter 24: Melatonin and Seasonal Plasticity -- Section VII: Circannual Rhythms, Photoperiodism and Seasonal Behaviours -- Chapter 25: Circannual Rhythms -- Chapter 26: Seasonal Changes in Brain and Behavior -- Chapter 27: Photoperiodic Regulation of Initiation and Termination of Breeding in Subtropical Birds -- Chapter 28: Molecular Mechanism Regulating Seasonality -- Chapter 29: Epigenetic Regulation of Seasonality -- Chapter 30: Insights into the Regulation of Spring Migration in Songbirds.
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