Article
Circadian rhythms in Neurospora crassa: lipid deficiencies restore robust rhythmicity to null frequency and white-collar mutants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 4 Jan 2000
Lakin-Thomas P L, Brody S
Abstract excerpt
The conidiation rhythm in the fungus Neurospora crassa is a model system for investigating the genetics of circadian clocks. Null mutants at the frq (frequency) locus (frq(9) and frq(10)) make no functional frq gene products and are arrhythmic under standard conditions. The white-collar strains (wc-1 and wc-2) are insensitive to most effects of light, and are also arrhythmic. All three genes are proposed to be...
Topics
- Cell Division
- Choline
- Circadian Rhythm
- Fungal Proteins
- Genes, Fungal
- Light
- Lipids
- Mutation
- Neurospora crassa
- Periodicity
- Temperature
