Colin Pittendrigh

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Colin Pittendrigh

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According to Wikipedia, Colin Stephenson Pittendrigh was a British-born biologist who spent most of his adult life in the United States. Pittendrigh is regarded as the "father of the biological clock," and founded the modern field of chronobiology alongside Jürgen Aschoff and Erwin Bünning. He is known for his careful descriptions of the properties of the circadian clock in Drosophila and other species, and providing the first formal models of how circadian rhythms entrain to local light-dark cycles.

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Colin Pittendrigh's Published Works

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Circadian rhythms and the circadian organization of living systems. (1960) (1307)
Temporal organization: reflections of a Darwinian clock-watcher. (1993) (967)
A functional analysis of circadian pacemakers in nocturnal rodents (1976) (693)
The Entrainment of Circadian Oscillations by Light and Their Role as Photoperiodic Clocks (1964) (684)
A functional analysis of circadian pacemakers in nocturnal rodents (1976) (607)
ON TEMPERATURE INDEPENDENCE IN THE CLOCK SYSTEM CONTROLLING EMERGENCE TIME IN DROSOPHILA. (1954) (601)
Circadian Systems: Entrainment (1981) (584)
A functional analysis of circadian pacemakers in nocturnal rodents (2005) (510)
A Functional analysis of circadian pacemakers in nocturnal rodents (2005) (436)
Circadian surfaces and the diversity of possible roles of circadian organization in photoperiodic induction. (1972) (321)
Circadian systems: longevity as a function of circadian resonance in Drosophila melanogaster. (1972) (286)
RECIPROCAL BEHAVIOUR ASSOCIATED WITH ALTERED HOMEOSTASIS AND PHOTOSENSITIVITY OF DROSOPHILA CLOCK MUTANTS (1989) (257)
Temperature compensation of the circadian oscillation in drosophila pseudoobscura and its entrainment by temperature cycles. (1968) (223)
Circadian Systems: General Perspective (1981) (222)
THE BROMELIAD–ANOPHELES–MALARIA COMPLEX IN TRINIDAD. I–THE BROMELIAD FLORA , (1948) (220)
An effect of castration and testosterone replacement on a circadian pacemaker in mice (Mus musculus). (1975) (197)
ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TRANSIENTS IN DAILY RHYTHMS. (1958) (188)
Circadian systems. I. The driving oscillation and its assay in Drosophila pseudoobscura. (1967) (165)
V. An Oscillator Model for Biological Clocks (1958) (161)
The Amplitude of Circadian Oscillations: Temperature Dependence, Latitudinal Clines, and the Photoperiodic Time Measurement (1991) (157)
TEMPERATURE INDEPENDENCE IN A UNICELLULAR "CLOCK". (1956) (136)
Circadian Locomotor Rhythms of Rodents in the Arctic (1967) (119)
General homeostasis of the frequency of circadian oscillations. (1973) (119)
Central nervous system control of circadian rhythmicity in the cockroach (1968) (117)
Mutual entrainment of bilaterally distributed circadian pacemaker. (1977) (108)
The bromeliad-Anopheles-malaria complex in Trinidad; the bromeliad flora. (1948) (105)
A functional analysis of circadian pacemakers in nocturnal rodents (2005) (105)
Latitudinal Clines in the Properties of a Circadian Pacemaker (1989) (83)
Circadian Oscillation Controlling Hatching: Its Ontogeny during Embryogenesis of a Moth (1968) (79)
Circadian systems. V. The driving oscillation and the temporal sequence of development. (1970) (77)
An effect of heavy water on the phase and period of the circadian rhythm in euglena (1960) (77)
A differential effect of heavy water on temperature-dependent and temperature-compensated aspects of circadian system of Drosophila pseudoobscura. (1973) (65)
Circadian systems, II. The oscillation in the individual Drosophila pupa; its independence of developmental stage. (1967) (65)
Central nervous system control of circadian rhythmicity in the cockroach (2004) (54)
Bromeliad malaria in Trinidad, British West Indies. (1946) (53)
Resetting the Sporulation Rhythm in Pilobolus with Short Light Flashes of High Intensity (1960) (51)
Sleep and activity rhythms in mice: A description of circadian patterns and unexpected disruptions in sleep (1977) (50)
The Photoperiodic Phenomena: Seasonal Modulation of the "Day Within" (1988) (48)
Temperature dependence and evolutionary adjustment of critical night length in insect photoperiodism. (1987) (48)
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CONTROL OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHMICITY IN THE COCKROACH. I. ROLE OF THE PARS INTERCEREBRALIS (1967) (48)
Resetting the Euglena Clock with a Single Light Stimulus (1958) (45)
Endogenous Rhythms in Insects and Microorganisms (1957) (43)
Circadian systems, VI. Photoperiodic time measurement in Pectinophora gossypiella. (1970) (39)
Circadian rhythms, space research and manned space flight. (1967) (38)
Biology and the Exploration of Mars (1966) (36)
On temporal organization in living systems. (1960) (31)
The Entrainment of Circadian Oscillations by Skeleton Photoperiods. (1964) (27)
ON THE EUCLIDEAN STRUCTURE OF RELATIVISTIC FIELD THEORY (26)
Genetical and cytological studies of Musa; certain aspects of polyploidy. (1946) (26)
THE ECOCLIMATIC DIVERGENCE OF ANOPHELES BELLATOR AND A. HOMUNCULUS (1950) (25)
A test of the hypothesis that D2O affects circadian oscillations by diminishing the apparent temperature. (1974) (25)
On the very rapid enhancement by D2O of the temperature-tolerance of adult Drosophila. (1974) (15)
Biology and the exploration of Mars : report of a study held under the Auspices of the Space Science Board, National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, 1964-1965 (1966) (11)
Circadian oscillations and organization in nervous systems (1975) (10)
The quantitative evaluation of Kerteszia breeding grounds. (1950) (10)
Predicting Emergent Properties of Neuronal Ensembles Using a Database of Individual Neurons (2002) (8)
The neuroendocrine basis midgut tumour induction in cockroaches. (1967) (7)
Extraterrestrial life: an anthology and bibliography (1966) (7)
Realignments in the Bromeliaceae Subfamily Tillandsioideae (1953) (5)
Day-night variation in the enzymatic dephosphorylation of ATP in hamster liver fractions. (1967) (4)
On the biological problems to be attacked with a series of U.S. satellites in 1966. (1965) (1)
The Biologist in the Solar System (1967) (1)
Statement of views by Colin Pittendrigh (1963) (0)
University of Groningen A Functional Analysis of Circadian Pacemakers in Nocturnal Rodents. II. The Variability of Phase Response Curves (2004) (0)
Clocklike properties of limit-cycle oscillations in cells and complex organisms (1977) (0)
Letter from Colin S. Pittendrigh to Joshua Lederberg (1962) (0)
Letter from Colin S. Pittendrigh to Lloyd V. Berkner (1961) (0)
Biology and Space Environment (1961) (0)
INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL concentrated in the dry canopy niches of (1950) (0)
Proposed Biological Exploration of Mars Between 1969 and 1973 (1965) (0)
Time and Talent. (1962) (0)
Letter from Colin S. Pittendrigh to Frederick H. Murphy (1964) (0)
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS (1962) (0)
Memorandum from Colin S. Pittendrigh (1962) (0)
AM ERICAN NATURALIST (1964) (0)
University of Groningen A Functional Analysis of Circadian Pacemakers in Nocturnal Rodents. V. Pacemaker Structure Pittendrigh, (2004) (0)
CIRCA DIAN SYSTEMS, I. THE DRIVING OSCILLATION AND I TS ASSA Y IN DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA* (0)

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