Biological rhythms: Hormones under moon control

Two light sensors decode moonlight versus sunlight to adjust a plastic circadian/circalunidian clock to moon phase

(2022) Martin Zurl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Kisspeptin Exhibits Stimulatory Effects on Expression of the Genes for Kisspeptin Receptor, GnRH1 and GTH Subunits in a Gonadal Stage-Dependent Manner in the Grass Puffer, a Semilunar-Synchronized Spawner

(2022) Md. Mahiuddin Zahangir et al.   Frontiers in Endocrinology

Prostaglandin E2 synchronizes lunar-regulated beach spawning in grass puffers

(2022) Junfeng Chen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Cryptochrome adopts distinct moon- and sunlight states and functions as sun- versus moonlight interpreter in monthly oscillator entrainment

(2022) Birgit Poehn et al.   Nature Communications

Longitudinal observations call into question the scientific consensus that humans are unaffected by lunar cycles

(2021) Thomas A. Wehr et al.   BIOESSAYS

The Still Dark Side of the Moon: Molecular Mechanisms of Lunar-Controlled Rhythms and Clocks

(2020) Gabriele Andreatta et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Combined transcriptome and proteome profiling reveals specific molecular brain signatures for sex, maturation and circalunar clock phase

(2019) Sven Schenk et al.   eLife

Corazonin signaling integrates energy homeostasis and lunar phase to regulate aspects of growth and sexual maturation in Platynereis

(2019) Gabriele Andreatta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Periodic regulation of expression of genes for kisspeptin, gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone and their receptors in the grass puffer: Implications in seasonal, daily and lunar rhythms of reproduction

(2018) Hironori Ando et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

An Overview of Monthly Rhythms and Clocks

(2017) Florian Raible et al.   Frontiers in Neurology

Lunar Phase Modulates Circadian Gene Expression Cycles in the Broadcast Spawning Coral Acropora millepora

(2016) Aisling K. Brady et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

A database of circadian and diel rhythmic gene expression in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2015) Matthew T Leming et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Hypothalamic Expression and Moonlight-Independent Changes of Cry3 and Per4 Implicate Their Roles in Lunar Clock Oscillators of the Lunar-Responsive Goldlined Spinefoot

(2014) Riko Toda et al.   PLoS One

A circadian gene expression atlas in mammals: Implications for biology and medicine

(2014) Ray Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deep sequencing the circadian and diurnal transcriptome of Drosophila brain

(2012) M. E. Hughes et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Lunar Phase-Dependent Expression of Cryptochrome and a Photoperiodic Mechanism for Lunar Phase-Recognition in a Reef Fish, Goldlined Spinefoot

(2011) Masato Fukushiro et al.   PLoS One

Aggregating Behavior of the Grass Puffer,Takifugu niphobles, Observed in Aquarium During the Spawning Period

(2010) Eiji Motohashi et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE