Behavioral dissection of the Drosophila circadian multioscillator system that regulates locomotor rhythms.

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The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster , shows a bimodal circadian activity rhythm with peaks around light-on and before light-off. This rhythm is driven by seven groups of so-called clock neurons in the brain. To dissect the multioscillatory nature of the Drosophila clock system, the process of reentrainment to a reversed light cycle was examined by using wild-type flies and cry(b) mutant flies that carry a...

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