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Product of per locus of Drosophila shares homology with proteoglycans.
Nature - 1 Jan 2000
Jackson F R, Bargiello T A, Yun S H, Young M W
Abstract excerpt
Genes controlling biological rhythms have been identified in Drosophila. The best characterized of these genes is called period (per). Although wild-type flies have daily (circadian) rhythms with a periodicity of approximately 24 h, pers and per1 mutants have 19-h and 29-h rhythms, respectively, and pero mutants are arrhythmic. The pers mutation also enhances the sensitivity of the circadian clock to resetting by...
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