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Temperature cycles which produced synchrony of cell division in autotrophic Euglena (preceding paper, Terry and Edmunds, 1970) usually also evoked a cellular settling rhythm. The rhythm was expressed as a recurrent cycle of cell attachment to culture-vessel surfaces, with nearly the same phase angle to each of the different temperature cycles. Attachment occurred in cultures stirred rapidly enough for thorough mixing of the cell suspension, but it was possible to prevent attachment by increased agitation. The settling rhythm was entrained by temperature cycles with periods shorter than the minimum period length required to phase cell division, but the rhythm also persisted with a circadian period at constant temperature in continuous light following entrainment by 12,12 hr temperature cycles. The rhythm appeared in stationary-phase cultures exposed to either cold-synchronizing or heat-synchronizing temperature cycles, and also in growth-phase cultures exposed to cold-synchronizing cycles. The settling rhythm was generally not observable in heat-synchronized growth-phase cultures although it often appeared in the same cultures as they approached the stationary phase.
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This work is derived from a dissertation submitted to the Department of Biological Sciences of the State University of New York at Stony Brook by OzTerry in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It was supported in part by a National Science Foundation Cooperative Graduate Fellowship to 0. Terry and in part by National Science Foundation research grants GB-4140 and GB-6892 and by State University of New York Research Foundation Grant-in-Aid 31-7150A to L. Edmunds.
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Terry, O.W., Edmunds, L.N. Rhythmic settling induced by temperature cycles in continuously-stirred autotrophic cultures of Euglena gracilis (Z strain). Planta 93, 128–142 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00387120
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