Biophysical clocks face a trade-off between internal and external noise resistance

Many organisms use free running circadian clocks to anticipate the day night cycle. However, others organisms use simple stimulus-response strategies (‘hourglass clocks’) and it is not clear when such strategies are sufficient or even preferable to free running clocks. Here, we find that free runnin...

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Main Authors: Weerapat Pittayakanchit, Zhiyue Lu, Justin Chew, Michael J Rust, Arvind Murugan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-07-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/37624