Many genetic oscillators (circadian clocks, synthetic oscillators) continue to oscillate across the cell division cycle.
The extended periods of 40 48 hours (frequencies between 0.5 and 1 cycles per day) are mainly assigned to genes that do not continue to oscillate under continuous light conditions.
In contrast, when defense against predators is effective but costs in competitive ability are low, prey adaptation can result in cryptic prey cycles in which predators continue to oscillate and total prey abundance is stabilized as edible and predator-resistant phenotypes oscillate out of phase of each other.
If there were no frictional losses (e.g., air friction, internal friction in the spring material, and friction at the pivots), the balance would swing precisely the same distance to the other side and continue to oscillate indefinitely; because of these losses, however, the oscillations in practice die away.
Instead of embracing constitutional patriotism, European citizens are likely to continue to oscillate between disinterest in European political life and national recalcitrance.
Prize verdicts continue to oscillate between the domestic library (The Line of Beauty, 2004) and the international marketplace (The White Tiger, 2008) in a brave attempt to fulfil expectations.
The cycle has various important features such as the ability to synchronise with an external periodic light source and to continue to oscillate even in the absence of variations in illumination.
Instead, it suggests that the former was something of a high-water mark for Mr. Romney and the latter a low-water mark, and that the race will continue to oscillate between these two poles.
Circadian rhythms are endogenously generated rhythms that continue to oscillate with a near-24-h period in the absence of periodic cycles in the external environment (1).
We therefore asked if our synchronized populations could free run: continue to oscillate in the absence of both entraining signals and periodic selection for cells in particular phases of the oscillation.
However, one potential defence in favour of the adaptation hypothesis rests on the notion that neuronal dynamics, induced by rhythmic stimulation, continue to oscillate upon cessation or interruption of stimulation (May et al., 1999).
