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My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
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Category: Clock News
You know I love it, love it, love it, when scientists blog about their own published papers, explaining to the lay audience what they did, how they did it, why they did it, and what it all means. And when...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:48 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Clock News
As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. - Denis Waitley...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:54 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chronobiology
Whenever I read a paper from Karl-Arne Stokkan's lab, and I have read every one of them, no matter how dense the scientese language I always start imagining them running around the cold, dark Arctic, wielding enormous butterfly nets, looking...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:52 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science News
Yes, years after I left the lab, I published a scientific paper. How did that happen? Back in 2000, I published a paper on the way circadian clock controls the time of day when the eggs are laid in Japanese...
Posted by Coturnix at 2:02 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Clock News
That is, among 20 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:03 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chronobiology
I am not the only one on ScienceBlogs.com to write about circadian rhythms, sleep and (non-visual) photoreception. Over the years, my SciBlings have written about these and related topics as well. Here is a sampler - go and dig for...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:48 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chronobiology
If you ever glanced at the circadian literature, you have probably encountered the statement that "circadian rhythms are ubiquitous in living systems". In all of my formal and informal writing I qualified that statement somewhat, stating something along the lines...
Posted by Coturnix at 11:41 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Animal Behavior
Most people are aware that social insects, like honeybees, have three "sexes": queens, drones and workers. Drones are males. Their only job is to fly out and mate with the queen after which they drop dead. Female larvae fed 'royal...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:18 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Clock News
Two interesting new papers in PLoS Biology today: A Role for the PERIOD:PERIOD Homodimer in the Drosophila Circadian Clock: The current models of circadian clocks in flies and mammals involve the formation of complexes between clock proteins in the cytoplasm....
Posted by Coturnix at 8:08 PM • •
Category: Clock News
Circadian Clock: Scientists Model 3D Structures Of Proteins That Control Human Clock: Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute say they have taken a leap forward in their quest to understand the proteins that control the human circadian clock -- the...
Posted by Coturnix at 8:34 AM • •
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