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CHRONOBIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
卷 20, 期 6, 页码 901-919出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1081/CBI-120026099
关键词
circadian; evolution; selection; adaptation; fitness; biological clocks
Cireadian clocks are ubiquitous and are found in organisms ranging from bacteria to mammals. This ubiquity of occurrence implies adaptive significance, but to date there has been no rigorous empirical evidence to support this. It is believed that an organism possessing circadian clocks gains fitness advantage in two ways: (i) by synchronizing its behavioral and physiological processes to cyclic environmental factors (extrinsic adaptive value); (ii) by coordinating its internal metabolic processes (intrinsic adaptive value). There is preliminary circumstantial evidence to support both. Several studies using organisms living in constant environments have shown that these organisms possess functional circadian clocks, suggesting that cireadian clocks may have some intrinsic adaptive value. Studies to assess the adaptive value of circadian clocks in periodic environments suggest that organisms may have a fitness advantage in those periodic environments, which closely match their own intrinsic periodicity. Furthermore, evidence from organisms living in the wild, selection studies, and studies. on latitudinal clines suggest that circadian clocks may have an extrinsic adaptive valueas well. In this paper, I have presented several hypotheses for the emergence of. circadian clocks and have reviewed some major empirical studies suggesting adaptive significance of circadian clocks.
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