10 Clock Evolution and Adaptation: Whence and Whither?
Annual Plant Reviews book series, Volume 21: Endogenous Plant Rhythms
Carl Hirschie Johnson,
Charalambos P. Kyriacou,
Carl Hirschie Johnson
Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Box 1634 Station B, Nashville, TN, 37235 USA
Search for more papers by this authorCharalambos P. Kyriacou
Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, U.K.
Search for more papers by this authorCarl Hirschie Johnson,
Charalambos P. Kyriacou,
Carl Hirschie Johnson
Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Box 1634 Station B, Nashville, TN, 37235 USA
Search for more papers by this authorCharalambos P. Kyriacou
Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, U.K.
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 19 April 2018
This article was originally published in 2005 in Endogenous Plant Rhythms, Volume 21 (ISBN 9781405123761) of the Annual Plant Reviews book series, this volume edited by Anthony J W Hall and Harriet McWatterss. The article was republished in Annual Plant Reviews online in April 2018.
Abstract
The sections in this article are
- Introductory Quotation
- Setting the Stage: The Appearance of Circadian Clocks
- Putative Selective Pressures
- Cyanobacteria and the First Clock Genes
- The Appearance of Clocks in Photosynthetic Eukaryotes
- Clocks are Widespread in Plants: Mosses, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
- Rhythms Controlled by the ‘Clockwork Green’
- Why not an Hourglass Timer?
- The Clock as an Adaptation: Past and Present
- The Circadian Clock as an Adaptation
- Experimental Tests of Adaptive Significance before 1980
- Laboratory Studies of Circadian Clocks and Reproductive Fitness since 1980
- Evidence that the Clock is Still Adaptive from Studies of Organisms in Natural Environments
- Clocks: Where did they come from? What are they Doing Now?
- Acknowledgements
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