Ultradian Photosynchronization in Tetrahymena Pyriformis Glc is Related to Modal Cell Generation Time: Further Evidence for a Common Timer Model |
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Authors: | Marijo A. Readey |
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Affiliation: | a Division of Biological and Medical Research, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USAb Ramsay Wright Zoological Laboratory, The University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Abstract: | This study contains the first report of the photosynchronization of Tetrahymena in the ultradian mode of cell division. Ultradian mode cultures of T. pyriformis GLC were grown at low cell titers in a nephelostat under five different ultradian photocycles and also under constant conditions of illumination.
Entrainment was achieved only when the period of the synchronizer did not exceed the nearest modal generation time observed in free-running single cells. Thus, the discrete ranges for photentrainment of ultradian rhythms in Tetrahymena were restricted to modal windows for the generation times in free-run. Cell division was found to be a function of the phase of the ultradian zeitgeber cycle. The cells did not behave as if they had been forced into synchrony by physiological shock; the synchronous populations obtained by this technique behaved like the populations commonly used in circadian studies, which had been phased by a cyclic variation within the tolerance range of the organism. |
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Keywords: | Ultradian circadian chronon cytochron cytogene quantal photosynchronization |
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