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In vertebrates living in regions that range from tropical to polar zones, the day length (photoperiod) is a powerful synchronizer of seasonal changes in endocrine and metabolic physiology. This seasonal photoperiodism depends on the responses of internal circadian clocks to changing patterns of light–dark exposure, which can be conceptualized in the form of ‘coincidence-timing’ models. The structural...