Evolution of canonical circadian clock genes underlies unique sleep strategies of marine mammals for secondary aquatic adaptation

• Daiqing Yin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daiqing Yin, Zhaomin Zhong, Fan Zeng

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6682-5864

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• Zhaomin Zhong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daiqing Yin, Zhaomin Zhong, Fan Zeng

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China, School of Biology & Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

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• Fan Zeng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daiqing Yin, Zhaomin Zhong, Fan Zeng

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

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• Zhikang Xu,

  Roles Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

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• Jing Li,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

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• Wenhua Ren,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

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• Guang Yang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gyang@njnu.edu.cn (GY); han.wang88@gmail.com (HW); xushixia@njnu.edu.cn (SX)

  Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Han Wang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gyang@njnu.edu.cn (GY); han.wang88@gmail.com (HW); xushixia@njnu.edu.cn (SX)

  Affiliations Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China, School of Biology & Basic Medical Sciences, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China

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• Shixia Xu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gyang@njnu.edu.cn (GY); han.wang88@gmail.com (HW); xushixia@njnu.edu.cn (SX)

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6496-3744

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