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Editorial
. 2022 Dec 13:2:1076702.
doi: 10.3389/fnetp.2022.1076702. eCollection 2022.

Editorial: Coupling in biological systems: Definitions, mechanisms, and implications

Christoph Schmal  1 , Sungho Hong  2 , Isao T Tokuda  3 , Jihwan Myung  4   5
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Editorial: Coupling in biological systems: Definitions, mechanisms, and implications

Christoph Schmal et al. Front Netw Physiol. .
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Keywords: biological network; circadian clock; coupling; entrainment; suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN); zeitgeber.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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FIGURE 1
Multiscale organization of circadian clock networks. Circadian clocks exist in all scales of biology, and so does the coupling among them. The scale spans from the whole organism (far left) to molecules within a single cell (bottom right).
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