Abstract

The "double circadian oscillator model" for the photoperiodic clock has been used to simulate thermoperiodic responses in insects and mites. Two assumptions have been made: (1) the clock measures cryophase in a similar way to scotophase, and (2) temperature cycles are able to entrain the clock in a similar way to LD cycles. Simulations showed that Assumption 1 causes the "critical cryophase" to be of about equal duration as the critical night length. Assumption 2 is not always needed if diapause incidences in DD are high at low temperatures but low or zero at high temperatures. The latter assumption is needed, however, if high diapause occurs in thermoperiodic cycles in DD, whereas nondiapause occurs in DD with both high and low constant temperatures. The model accounts for the observation that the amplitude of the temperature cycle is important in some insects, whereas the temperature of the cryophase is crucial in others.

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