Table 1.

Overview on gene differences in the context of the lunar cycle.

Species	Genes analyzed for being affected by nocturnal light or circalunar clock	Analytical method(s)	Reference
Acropora millipora (coral)	cry1, cry2 expression at noon vs. midnight during new moon and full moon, protein location in tissue (note that coral cry1 and cry2 are not equivalent to bilaterian cry1/cry2)	qPCR	Levy et al. (24)
A. millipora (coral)	cry1, cry2, clk, cycle, tim, eya expression 2 sampling regimes: –every 4 h during new and full moon –midnight on 4 moon phases and 4 different lunar light regimes (normal lunar cycles, constant new moon, constant full moon)	qPCR	Brady et al. (23)
A. millipora (coral)	Transcriptome from various diel and lunar timepoints	Quantitative RNAseq	Kaniewska et al. (25)
Acropora gemmifera (coral)	Transcriptome from two diel and four lunar timepoints	Quantitative RNAseq	Oldach et al. (26)
Favia fragum (coral)	cry1, cry2, clk, cycle expression at various diel and lunar timepoints	qPCR	Hoadley et al. (27)
Platynereis dumerilii (annelid worm)	clock, bmal (cycle), tr-cry, L-cry, period, pdp1, vrille	qPCR	Zantke et al. (22), Tessmar-Raible et al. (28)
Clunio marinus (dipteran insect)	Genomic loci that contain the genetic differences causing differences in monthly timing	QTL mapping/genome sequencing	Kaiser et al. (29)
Siganus guttatus (fish)	cry1, cry3, per4 transcripts at noon during 5 different lunar phases (natural lunar light, constant new moon, two different coverage regimes during different phases of the night)	qPCR	Fukushiro et al. (30), Toda et al. (31)
	Cry3 protein localization in brain