Neumann D
Arzneimittelforschung. 1978;28(10a):1842-9.
Behavioral and developmental rhythms of some species inhabiting the intertidal zone of sea-coasts as well as some species of tropical lakes and forests have adapted to environmental cycles which are determined by the moon (the semi-diurnal tides, the semi-monthly cycle of springs and neaps, and the changes in moon-light during the night). The underlying timing mechanisms of these tidal and lunar rhythmus are of different kinds. Some of them belong to the oscillating types of physiological clocks (circa-tidal oscillator, circa-semilunar and circa-lunar oscillator), others may represent an hour-glass type (resulting in a single programming), or they are based on a stochastically influenced control of the duration of activity and rest. The combination of a circa-semilunar oscillator with a circadian oscillator enables an intertidal organism to synchronize its rhythms with an environmental situation which reoccurs only every 15 days at the same time of day (1.3., low-water phase of spring tides). The speculations on true lunar rhythms in humans are discussed.
栖息在海岸潮间带的一些物种以及热带湖泊和森林中的一些物种的行为和发育节律已经适应了由月球决定的环境周期（半日潮、半月周期的大潮和小潮以及夜间月光的变化）。这些潮汐和月节律的潜在计时机制有不同类型。其中一些属于生理时钟的振荡类型（近潮汐振荡器、近半月和近月振荡器），其他的可能代表沙漏类型（导致单一编程），或者它们基于对活动和休息持续时间的随机影响控制。近半月振荡器与昼夜振荡器的结合使潮间带生物能够使其节律与每天同一时间仅每15天重现一次的环境状况同步（例如，大潮的低潮期）。文中讨论了关于人类真正月节律的推测。
