Elsevier Science & Technology Insect Clocks

This book explains modern developments securely embedded in a background of the broader, and sometimes older, aspects of insect biological rhythms. A general introduction explains the genetics and molecular biology of circadian rhythmicity. Insect Clocks, 3e reveals its latest discovery in rhythmic phenomena ranging from short period through daily period cycles of behavior, physiology and biochemistry. There are excellent accounts of the 'wet' physiology of circadian systems and mathematical modelling of circadian rhythms.