Dissecting the mechanistic basis of moon-controlled monthly timing mechanisms in marine environments

Project Information

Mari.Time

Grant agreement ID: 819952

DOI

10.3030/819952

Project closed

EC signature date 30 July 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

TMT-Opsins differentially modulate medaka brain function in a context-dependent manner

Author(s): Bruno M. Fontinha, Theresa Zekoll, Mariam Al-Rawi, Miguel Gallach, Florian Reithofer, Alison J. Barker, Maximilian Hofbauer, Ruth M. Fischer, Arndt von Haeseler, Herwig Baier, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 19/1, 2021, Page(s) e3001012, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001012

The Still Dark Side of the Moon: Molecular Mechanisms of Lunar-Controlled Rhythms and Clocks

Author(s): Gabriele Andreatta, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: Journal of Molecular Biology, Issue 432/12, 2020, Page(s) 3525-3546, ISSN 0022-2836
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.03.009

Light-modulated stem cells in the camera-type eye of an annelid model for adult brain plasticity

Author(s): Nadja Milivojev, Federico Scaramuzza, Pedro Ozório Brum, Camila L. Velastegui Gamboa, Gabriele Andreatta, Florian Raible, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65631-0

The Nereid on the rise: Platynereis as a model system

Author(s): B. Duygu Özpolat , Nadine Randel , Elizabeth A. Williams, Luis Alberto Bezares‐Calderón, Gabriele Andreatta, Guillaume Balavoine , Paola Y. Bertucci, David E. K. Ferrier , Maria Cristina Gambi9 , Eve Gazave6 , Mette Handberg‐Thorsager10 , Jörg Hardege11 , Cameron Hird4 , Yu‐Wen Hsieh10 , Jerome Hui12, Kevin Nzumbi Mutemi7 , Stephan Q. Schneider13 , Oleg Simakov14 , Hernando M. Vergara15,
Published in: EvoDevo, 2021, ISSN 2041-9139
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13227-021-00180-3

Characterization of cephalic and non-cephalic sensory cell types provides insight into joint photo- and mechanoreceptor evolution

Author(s): Roger Revilla-i-Domingo, Vinoth Babu Veedin Rajan, Monika Waldherr, Günther Prohaczka, Hugo Musset, Lukas Orel, Elliot Gerrard, Moritz Smolka, Alexander Stockinger, Matthias Farlik, Robert J Lucas, Florian Raible, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: eLife, Issue 10, 2021, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.66144

Cryopreservation of Platynereis dumerilii larvae

Author(s): Estefania Paredes, Netsanet Berhane Getachew, Luis Alberto Bezares-Calderón, Sara Campos, Andrij Belokurov, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: Cryobiology, Issue 122, 2026, Page(s) 105544, ISSN 0011-2240
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2025.105544

Time me by the moon

Author(s): Andrés Ritter, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: EMBO Reports, Issue 25, 2025, Page(s) 3169-3176, ISSN 1469-3178
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44319-024-00196-5

Two light sensors decode moonlight versus sunlight to adjust a plastic circadian/circalunidian clock to moon phase

Author(s): Zurl M, Poehn B, Rieger D, Krishnan S, Rokvic D, Veedin Rajan VB, Gerrard E, Schlichting M, Orel L, Lucas RJ, Wolf E, Helfrich-Förster C, Raible F and Tessmar-Raible K
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115725119

A Cryptochrome adopts distinct moon- and sunlight states and functions as sun- versus moonlight interpreter in monthly oscillator entrainment.

Author(s): Poehn B, Krishnan S, Zurl M, Coric A, Rokvic D, Häfker NS, Jaenicke E, Arboleda E, Orel L, Raible F, Wolf E, Tessmar-Raible K.
Published in: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32562-z

The cation exchanger Letm1, circadian rhythms, and NAD(H) levels interconnect in diurnal zebrafish

Author(s): Pauline Dao, Stefan Hajny, Ronald Mekis, Lukas Orel, Nora Dinhopl, Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Karin Nowikovsky
Published in: Life Science Alliance, Issue 5, 2024, Page(s) e202101194, ISSN 2575-1077
Publisher: Life Science Alliance, LLC
DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202101194

Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms.

Author(s): Häfker NS, Andreatta G, Manzotti A, Falciatore A, Raible F, Tessmar-Raible K.
Published in: Ann Rev Mar Sci, 2023, ISSN 1941-1405
Publisher: Annual Reviews Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-030422-113038

All Light, Everywhere? Photoreceptors at Nonconventional Sites

Author(s): Audrey Mat, Hong Ha Vu, Eva Wolf, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: Physiology, Issue 39, 2023, Page(s) 30-43, ISSN 1548-9213
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00017.2023

Characterization of tmt-opsin2 in Medaka Fish Provides Insight Into the Interplay of Light and Temperature for Behavioral Regulation

Author(s): Theresa Zekoll , Monika Waldherr, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: Frontiers in Physiology, 2021, ISSN 1664-042X
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.726941

Biological rhythms: Hormones under moon control

Author(s): Gabriele Andreatta, Florian Raible, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) R1269-R1271, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.10.018

Molecular circadian rhythms are robust in marine annelids lacking rhythmic behavior

Author(s): N. Sören Häfker, Laurenz Holcik, Audrey M. Mat, Aida Ćorić, Karim Vadiwala, Isabel Beets, Alexander W. Stockinger, Carolina E. Atria, Stefan Hammer, Roger Revilla-i-Domingo, Liliane Schoofs, Florian Raible, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 22, 2024, Page(s) e3002572, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002572

Guiding Light: Mechanisms and Adjustments of Environmental Light Interpretation with Insights from Platynereis dumerilii and Other Selected Examples

Author(s): Paul O. Wulf, N. Sören Häfker, Kaelin Hofmann, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: Zoological Science, Issue 42, 2025, ISSN 0289-0003
Publisher: Zoological Society of Japan
DOI: 10.2108/zs240099

A Fast And Versatile Method for Simultaneous HCR, Immunohistochemistry And Edu Labeling (SHInE)

Author(s): Aida Ćorić, Alexander W Stockinger, Petra Schaffer, Dunja Rokvić, Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Florian Raible
Published in: Integrative And Comparative Biology, Issue 63, 2023, Page(s) 372-381, ISSN 1540-7063
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icad007

Seasonal variation in UVA light drives hormonal and behavioural changes in a marine annelid via a ciliary opsin

Author(s): Vinoth Babu Veedin Rajan, N. Sören Häfker, Enrique Arboleda, Birgit Poehn, Thomas Gossenreiter, Elliot Gerrard, Maximillian Hofbauer, Christian Mühlestein, Andrea Bileck, Christopher Gerner, Maurizio Ribera d’Alcala, Maria C. Buia, Markus Hartl, Robert J. Lucas, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 5/2, 2021, Page(s) 204-218, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature Publishing group
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-01356-1

A cryptochrome photoreceptor controls animal light-dependent growth and lifespan via evolutionary conserved hormonal pathways

Author(s): Gabriele Andreatta, Federico Scaramuzza, Aida Ćorić, Lukas Orel, Audrey Mat, Hiroki Takekata, Birgit Poehn, Nadja Milivojev, Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2514719123

Melanopsin elevates locomotor activity during the wake state of the diurnal zebrafish

Author(s): Marcus P S Dekens, Bruno M Fontinha, Miguel Gallach, Sandra Pflügler, Kristin Tessmar‐Raible
Published in: EMBO reports, Issue 23, 2025, ISSN 1469-221X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.15252/embr.202051528