The circadian basis of ovarian diapause regulation in Drosophila melanogaster: is the period gene causally involved in photoperiodic time measurement?

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The circadian basis of ovarian diapause regulation in Drosophila melanogaster: is the period gene causally involved in photoperiodic time measurement?

Journal of biological rhythms - 1 Jan 1990

Saunders D S

Abstract excerpt

Females of a wild-type strain of Drosophila melanogaster (Canton-S), and of several clock mutants (period), were able to discriminate between diapause-inducing short days and diapause-averting long days with a well-defined critical daylength. The critical daylengths of a short-period mutant (pers...

Topics

Animals
Circadian Rhythm
DNA Probes
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genes
Light
Motor Activity
Mutation
Ovary
Periodicity

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