Caleb Wellard

Adult chickens utilise external circadian cues to schedule their daily cycles. In other taxa, developing embryos can actively entrain the timing of life transitions to a circadian rhythm (Villamizar et al., 2013, Saunders, 2002), but we currently have a poor understanding of how circadian rhythms develop in meat chicken embryos. Commercial poultry are not exposed to diurnal light changes during in ...