Abstract
To cope with seasonal changes in the environment, animals change their physiology and behavior, such as reproduction, metabolism, immune function, migration, and hibernation. Among various seasonally fluctuating environmental cues, photoperiod is a dominant cue that drives different seasonal responses. The responses of organisms to photoperiodic changes are called photoperiodism. Although mechanisms of seasonal reproduction have been uncovered in the past several decades, the molecular mechanisms of other photoperiodically regulated physiology and behavior remain unknown. Recent advances in genome sequencing and genome editing techniques in non-model animals have enabled us to identify and characterize the genes involved in photoperiodism. In the present chapter, we discuss the background of photoperiodism, followed by a description of the methods used to identify and characterize genes involved in vertebrate photoperiodism.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI “Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research” (26000013) and “Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)” (19H05643).
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Nakayama, T., Okubo, K., Ansai, S., Yoshimura, T. (2022). Identification and Characterization of Genes Involved in Vertebrate Photoperiodism. In: Hirota, T., Hatori, M., Panda, S. (eds) Circadian Clocks. Neuromethods, vol 186. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2577-4_11
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