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Biological timing responses in animals
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Biological ClocksUsed by animals for:• Controlling daily rhythms, e.g. sleep• Synchronising breeding times• Predicting and preparing for migration,
hibernation• Time compensation for navigation• Prediction of changes in the environment,
e.g. day/night, tides, seasons
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Where is it?
• Reptiles and birds – the pineal gland in the brain can detect light directly
• Mammals – in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of the hypothalamus. (see next slide)
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Circadian rhythms in animals• Diurnal – active in day, inactive at night• Nocturnal – active at night, inactive in day• Crepuscular – active twilight – dawn and
or dusk• Arrhythmic – no regular pattern e.g. deep
ocean or caves.
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Some human circadian rhythms
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Using an actogram• The actogram below shows the activity rhythm of a
mouse for kept in constant dim light for 7 days. A running wheel connected to a computer was used.
• The ‘a’ and ‘b’ are the same day. Days are plotted twice to help you see the rhythm
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Circalunar rhythms
• Possibly a relationship with human female menstrual cycle but it is not synchronised with the lunar cycle
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Palolo Worms• Palolo are about 12 inches long and live in
burrows dug into the coral reef. They have two sections. The front section is the basic segmented worm with eyes, mouth, etc., followed by a string of segments that contain reproductive gametes.
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• When it comes time to spawn, palolo release the back section from their body.
• The sections then twirl around in the water in vast numbers. Around daybreak, the segments dissolve and release the eggs and sperm that they contain.
• The fertilized eggs hatch into small larvae that drift with the plankton. the survivors settle on a coral reef to begin life anew.
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Palolo reproductive segments
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• This is a classic example of coordinated mass spawning.
• The worms emerge from their burrows during a specific phase of the moon.
• The swarms occur on the evenings of the last quarter moon of spring or early summer.
• In Samoa, this is seven days after the full moon in October or November. Swarming occurs for two or three consecutive nights.
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• Palolo is considered a delicacy by the islanders
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Circatidal rhythms
• Grunion spawn on California beaches from April to June during high spring tides
Female
Male
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• Shore crabs are active at high tide
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• Fiddler crabs are active at low tide
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Circannual rhythms
• The tilt of the Earth’s axis of rotation produces the seasons.
• Many animals show annual rhythms to cope with the changes in weather and food availability
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Human circannual rhythms
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Hibernation
• Overwintering• An animal’s metabolic rate
decreases greatly. The groundhog’s temperature drops from 36°C to about 6°C and its heart rate from 80 down to 5 beats per minute
Japanese dormouse
dormouse
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• 1000’s of red sided garter snakes hibernate together in caves in Canada
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Diapause
• This is insect hibernation. Many insects overwinter as pupae in diapause, e.g. silk moths.
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Aestivation• Summer hibernation• Worms, snails, frogs and
some fish can survive long periods of dry conditions by going into a dormant state
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Migration
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Reproduction• Animals reproduce at a time of year when
their offspring will have the best chance to survive