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Table of Contents
- How Rod, Cone and Melanopsin Photoreceptors Come Together to Enlighten the Mammalian Circadian ClockRobert J Lucas, Gurprit S Lall, Annette E Allen and Timothy M Brown
- Melanopsin Phototransduction: Slowly Emerging from the Dark
Steven Hughes, Mark W. Hankins, Russell G. Foster and Stuart N. Peirson
- Circadian Clocks: Lessons From Fish
M. Laura Idda, Cristiano Bertolucci, Daniela Vallone, Yoav Gothilf, Francisco Javier Sánchez-Vázquez and Nicholas S. Foulkes
- Two Clocks in the Brain
An Update of the Morning and Evening Oscillator Model in Drosophila
Taishi Yoshii, Dirk Rieger and Charlotte Helfrich-Förster
- Circadian System from Conception Till Adulthood
Alena Sumova, Martin Sladek, Lenka Polidarova, Marta Novakova and Pavel Houdek
- When does it start Ticking? Ontogenetic Development of the Mammalian Circadian System
Elmar Christ, Horst-Werner Korf and Charlotte von Gall
- The Circadian Output Signals from the Suprachiasmatic Nuclei
Jia-Da Li, Wang-Ping Hu and Qun-Yong Zhou
- Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: Cellular Clocks and Networks
Sato Honma, Daisuke Ono, Yohko Suzuki, Natsuko Inagaki, Tomoko Yoshikawa, Wataru Nakamura and Ken-ichi Honma
- Dynamic Neuronal Network Organization of the Circadian Clock, and Possible Deterioration in Disease
Johanna H. Meijer, Christopher S. Colwell, Jos H.T. Rohling, Thijs Houben and Stephan Michel
- Interaction of Central and Peripheral Clocks in Physiological Regulation
Johanna L. Barclay, Anthony H. Tsang and Henrik Oster
- Circadian Rhythms in White Adipose Tissue
R. van der Spek, F. Kreier, E. Fliers and A. Kalsbeek
- Circadian Modulation of Sleep in Rodents
Roman Yasenkov and Tom Deboer
- Local Aspects of Sleep: Observations from Intracerebral Recordings in Humans
Lino Nobili, Luigi De Gennaro, Paola Proserpio, Fabio Moroni, Simone Sarasso, Andrea Pigorini, Fabrizio De Carli and Michele Ferrara
- The Circadian Clock Component PERIOD2: From Molecular to Cerebral Functions
Jürgen A. Ripperger and Urs Albrecht
- Generation of Mouse Mutants as Tools in Dissecting the Molecular Clock
Sneha N. Anand, Jessica K. Edwards and Patrick M. Nolan
- In Search of a Temporal Niche: Social Interactions
Alexandra Castillo-Ruiz, Matthew J. Paul and William J. Schwartz
- In Search of a Temporal Niche: Environmental Factors
Roelof A. Hut, Noga Kronfeld-Schor, Vincent Van der Vinne and Horacio De la Iglesia
- Feedback Actions of Locomotor Activity to The Circadian Clock
Alun T.L. Hughes and Hugh D. Piggins
- The Impact of The Circadian Timing System on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Function
Christopher J. Morris, Jessica N. Yang and Frank A.J.L. Scheer
- Nutrition and The Circadian Timing System
D.J. Stenvers, C.F. Jonkers, E. Fliers, P.H.L.T. Bisschop and A. Kalsbeek
- Managing Neurobehavioral Capability when Social Expediency Trumps Biological Imperatives
Andrea M. Spaeth, Namni Goel and David F. Dinges
- Noisy and Individual, but Doable: Shift-Work Research in Humans
Thomas Kantermann, Sophie M.T. Wehrens, Melissa A. Ulhôa, Claudia Moreno and Debra J. Skene
- The Evolutionary Physiology of Photoperiodism in Vertebrates
David Hazlerigg
- A Kiss for Daily and Seasonal Reproduction
V. Simonneaux, I. Bur, C. Ancel, L. Ansel and P. Klosen
- Circannual Rhythm in the Varied Carpet Beetle, Anthrenus verbasci
Yosuke Miyazaki, Tomoyosi Nisimura and Hideharu Numata
- Avian Migration: Temporal Multi-Tasking and a Case Study of Melatonin Cycles in Waders Barbara Helm, Eberhard Gwinner, Anita Koolhaas, Phil Battley, Ingrid Schwabl, Anne Dekinga and Theunis Piersma
