Schematic of the mathematical model. (IMAGE)

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Schematic of the mathematical model.

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Schematic of the mathematical model. The model consists of two populations of coupled oscillators, where one population represents the central clock in the brain, entrained by light, and the other population represents the peripheral clocks, entrained by food.

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Huang et al.

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