Cargando…

An introduction to the history of chronobiology. metaphors, models, and mechanisms / Volume III, The search for biological clocks :

In three volumes, historian Jole Shackelford delineates the history of the study of biological rhythms--now widely known as chronobiology--from antiquity into the twentieth century. Perhaps the most well-known biological rhythm is the circadian rhythm, tied to the cycles of day and night and often r...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shackelford, Jole (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to Volume III
  • 1. Endocrine Control Mechanisms and Modeling Rhythmic Behaviors
  • 2. Temperature Independence and the Endogenous Clock Hypothesis
  • 3. Physicochemical and Electronic Models for Biological Rhythms
  • 4. The Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology: Biological Clocks and the Endogenous Rhythm Controversy
  • 5. Bioluminescence as a Rhythmic Phenomenon and Research Tool
  • 6. Modeling Clock Mechanisms and Clocked Systems
  • 7. Critical Pathways and Clockworks