Moonlight is a key entrainer of lunar clock in the brain of the tropical grouper with full moon preference

Abstract Background Many animals in coral reefs exhibit lunar cycles in their reproduction, showing synchronous gametogenesis and spawning at a particular moon phase. How these lunar reproductive cycles are endogenously regulated remains unknown, although changes in moonlight between the new moon an...

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Main Authors: Kodai Fukunaga, Fumika Yamashina, Yuki Takeuchi, Chihiro Yamauchi, Akihiro Takemura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:BMC Zoology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40850-020-00060-8