The living clock : the orchestrator of biological rhythms / John D. Palmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmer, John D., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biological rhythms.

Jet lag.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An introduction to a basic property of life, one mostly unknown to science and the public until the latter half of the last century: humans, plants, and animals have within their bodies a kind of clock that synchronizes much of what they do with the time of day, the seasons or the tides.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. Introduction to Rhythms and Clocks

Chapter 2. Human Rhythms: Basic Processes

Chapter 3. Rhythmic Pharmacology

Chapter 4. Jet Lag can be a Drag

Chapter 5. Daily Rhythm in Single-Cell Organisms

Chapter 6. Rhythms in Shore Dwellers

Chapter 7. Some Animal Rhythms

Chapter 8. A Few Plant Clocks

Chapter 9. Denouement: The Living Clock

Notes

Suggested Readings

Figure Credits

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028664-4

0-19-770150-7

1-280-53138-X

9786610531387

0-19-803275-7

1-60256-668-2

OCLC:

171572857