New study brings us one step closer to understanding how tidal clocks tick

(Bar-Ilan University) A comprehensive study on the rhythmicity of limpets -- mobile intertidal molluscs -- employing field and laboratory observations, as well assembling a clock oriented transcriptome -- shows that in the same way that these animals behave with a tidal rhythm, so too are a majority of their genes expressed in a tidal (and not circadian) rhythm, including some genes which were thought to play an important role in circadian clocks/timing.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news