“…Ultradian rhythms are often co-expressed with circadian (∼24 h) rhythms, which was first reported by Szymansky when looking at behavioural activity patterns in a range of species ( Szymanski, 1920 ). Since then, ultradian rhythms have been reported in numerous behavioural and physiological processes such as locomotor and feeding behaviour ( Gerkema and van der Leest, 1991 ; van Oort et al, 2007 ; Dowse et al, 2010 ; van Beest et al, 2020 ; Morris et al, 2022 ), body temperature ( Lindsley et al, 1999 ; Diatroptov et al, 2019 ; 2020 ; Thiel et al, 2022 ), glucocorticoid concentration ( Lightman et al, 2008 ; Waite et al, 2012 ; Flynn et al, 2018 ), hormone release ( Van Cauter, 1990 ; Droste et al, 2008 ; Waite et al, 2012 ; Kalafatakis et al, 2018 ), central monoamine release ( Blum et al, 2014 ), gene expression ( Hughes et al, 2009 ; van der Veen and Gerkema, 2017 ; Ballance and Zhu, 2021 ; Scott et al, 2023 ), and cellular metabolism ( Brodsky, 2014 ; Zhu et al, 2017 ; Goh et al, 2019 ; Ballance and Zhu, 2021 ; Yang et al, 2022 ; Asher and Zhu, 2023 ; Psomas et al, 2023 ). Despite these widespread observations of ultradian rhythms, very little is known about their function and the intrinsic mechanisms that drive them.…”