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Coupled biological oscillators in a cave insect
G A Oda1, I L Caldas, J R Piqueira
1Institute of Physics, University of São Paolo, SP, Brazil.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
|October 3, 2000
Abstract:
Insects that live in the interior of caves show the basic internal temporal organization of coupled oscillators. An analysis is made of the coupled moulting and oviposition cycles of Folsomia candida, a cave-dwelling Collembolan, with regard to their oscillatory nature, their phase dependent responses to external perturbations, the effect of coupling on these responses, and conjecture about the link of these cycles with circadian clocks in other organisms.