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The persistence and modulation of endogenous circatidal rhythmicity in Lipophrys pholis (Teleostei)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

S. J. Northcott ,
R. N. Gibson  and
E. Morgan
S. J. Northcott
Affiliation:
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, PO Box 3, Oban, Argyll, PA34 4AD School of Biology, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
R. N. Gibson
Affiliation:
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, PO Box 3, Oban, Argyll, PA34 4AD
E. Morgan
Affiliation:
School of Biology, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
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In constant conditions, freshly-collected Lipophrys pholis show an endogenous circatidal activity rhythm, the initial activity peaks of which are phased to the expected time of high tide. The rhythm usually damps out over a few days but it may re-appear spontaneously or as a result of disturbance caused by handling and transfer to the experimental apparatus. The free-running period is more variable in fish kept in non-tidal conditions for prolonged periods than in those recorded shortly after capture. The non-circatidal periodicity shown by some fish may be the result of stable coupling in antiphase of desynchronised oscillators. There is no semilunar variation of the circatidal rhythm and no influence of the slight diurnal inequality in tidal period upon the rhythm's periodicity, at least at the site studied. The activity rhythm of Lipophrys varies seasonally.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 70 , Issue 4 , November 1990 , pp. 815 - 827
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1990

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