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Functional conservation of clock output signaling between flies and intertidal crabs.
Journal of biological rhythms - 1 Dec 2011
Beckwith Esteban J, Lelito Katherine R, Hsu Yun-Wei A, Medina Billie M, Shafer Orie, Ceriani M Fernanda, de la Iglesia Horacio O
Abstract excerpt
Intertidal species have both circadian and circatidal clocks. Although the behavioral evidence for these oscillators is more than 5 decades old, virtually nothing is known about their molecular clockwork. Pigment-dispersing hormones (PDHs) were originally described in crustaceans. Their insect homologs, pigment-dispersing factors (PDFs), have a prominent role as clock output and synchronizing signals released...
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