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Seasonal behavior in Drosophila melanogaster requires the photoreceptors, the circadian clock, and phospholipase C.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Feb 2004
Collins B H, Rosato E, Kyriacou C P
Abstract excerpt
Drosophila melanogaster locomotor activity responds to different seasonal conditions by thermosensitive regulation of splicing of a 3' intron in the period mRNA transcript. Here we demonstrate that the control of locomotor patterns by this mechanism is primarily light-dependent at low temperatures. At warmer temperatures, when it is vitally important for the fly to avoid midday desiccation, more stringent...
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