Early birds, late owls, and the ecological role of intra-population chronotype variation
Royzrakh-Pasternak, E.; Dayan, T.; Levy, O.; Kronfeld-Schor, N.
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While the molecular mechanisms underlying variation in chronotypes within populations have been studied extensively, the ultimate selective forces governing it are poorly understood. The proximate cause is variation in clock genes and protein expression, which produces variation in tau (period length of the circadian clock), with early individuals having shorter tau. We studied within-population variation in foraging activity times of two Acomys species in the field. This variation manifested in a regular and consistent sequence of individual foraging activity that is positively and strongly correlated with variation in tau. Thus, variation in circadian clock period length (tau) appears to be the mechanism underlying the regular pattern of intraspecific temporal partitioning. Late chronotypes also spent more time torpid than earlier ones, suggesting an energetic cost to this strategy and possible tradeoffs. We suggest that variation in tau is an adaptive mechanism to reduce competition between individuals within a population.
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