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Adaptive Temperature Compensation in Circadian Oscillations

Figure 1

Three idealized behaviours in response to a temperature step.

Red is temperature, blue is for the clock phase. (A) Temperature sensitivity. The clock ticking rate (and consequently its period) changes with temperature. (B) Temperature insensitivity. Nothing changes with temperature. (C) Temperature compensation. The clock runs faster just after a temperature step (explaining entrainment and phase shifts) but then returns to its initial value, so that period of the clock does not change.

Figure 1

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002585.g001