The main objective of the diploma thesis was to create a project of a tutorial on the subject of animal and human biorhythms. The tutorial is intentioned as an additional biology curriculum at grammar schools. Analysis of teaching biorhythms in secondary Biology schoolbooks used in the Czech Republic preceded a composition of this tutorial. Processing literary research based on reading Czech and foreign-language literature was another theoretical resource. The tutorial is divided into three parts {--} {\clqq}Animal Biorhythms``, {\clqq}Human Biorhythms`` and {\clqq}Seasonal Animal Biorhythms``. Some parts of the tutorial were verified in practice.

Yes / Seasonal rhythms in energy balance are well documented across temperate and equatorial zones animals. The long-term regulated changes in seasonal physiology consists of a rheostatic system that is essential to successful time annual cycles in reproduction, hibernation, torpor, and migration. Most animals use the annual change in photoperiod as a reliable and robust environmental cue to entrain endogenous (i.e. circannual) rhythms. Research over the past few decades has predominantly examined the role of first order neuroendocrine peptides for the rheostatic changes in energy balance. These anorexigenic and orexigenic neuropeptides in the arcuate nucleus include neuropeptide y (Npy), agouti-related peptide (Agrp), cocaine and amphetamine related transcript (Cart) and pro-opiomelanocortin (Pomc). Recent studies also indicate that VGF nerve growth factor inducible (Vgf) in the arcuate nucleus is involved in the seasonal regulation of energy balance. In situ hybridization, qPCR and RNA-sequencing studies have identified that Pomc expression across fish, avian and mammalian species, is a neuroendocrine marker that reflects seasonal energetic states. Here we highlight that long-term changes in arcuate Pomc and Vgf expression is conserved across species and may provide rheostatic regulation of seasonal energy balance. / Academy of Medical Sciences, Leverhulme Trust