Article
DN1(p) circadian neurons coordinate acute light and PDF inputs to produce robust daily behavior in Drosophila.
Current biology : CB - 13 Apr 2010
Zhang Luoying, Chung Brian Y, Lear Bridget C, Kilman Valerie L, Liu Yixiao, Mahesh Guruswamy, Meissner Rose-Anne, Hardin Paul E, Allada Ravi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Daily behaviors in animals are determined by the interplay between internal timing signals from circadian clocks and environmental stimuli such as light. How these signals are integrated to produce timely and adaptive behavior is unclear. The fruit fly Drosophila exhibits clock-driven activity increases that anticipate dawn and dusk and free-running rhythms under constant conditions. Flies also...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Behavior, Animal
- Circadian Rhythm
- Drosophila Proteins
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Female
- Genes, Insect
- Light
- Male
- Mutation