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Does a Biological Clock Reside in the Eye of Quail?

Department of Zoology North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695

Thomas Siopes

Department of Poultry Science North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695

R. Keith Barrett

Department of Zoology North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695

The site (intra- vs. extraocular) of the circadian clock driving an ocular melatonin rhythm in Japanese quail was investigated by alternately covering the left and right eyes of individual quail, otherwise held in constant light (LL), for 12-hr periods. This procedure exposed each eye to a light-dark (LD) 12:12 light cycle 180° (12 hr) out of phase with the LD 12:12 light cycle experienced by the other eye. This protocol entrained the melatonin rhythm in the left eye of quail 180° out of phase with the rhythm expressed in the right eye. These results are compatible with the hypothesis that an independent light-entrainable circadian pacemaker resides in each eye; they are incompatible with the hypothesis that a single (or functionally single) extraocular pacemaker drives the ocular melatonin rhythm in both eyes. However, the results are also compatible with a model in which two independent extraocular circadian pacemakers, each with an exclusive photic input from one eye, drive the ocular melatonin rhythm.

Journal of Biological Rhythms, Vol. 3, No. 4, 323-331 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/074873048800300402


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