Tripping along the trail to the molecular mechanisms of biological clocks.

doi:10.1016/0166-2236(95)93908-g

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Tripping along the trail to the molecular mechanisms of biological clocks.

Trends in neurosciences - 1 May 1995

Hall J C

Abstract excerpt

Solving the mechanism of circadian clocks has become an important goal, in part because daily rhythms are running in such a wide variety of organisms, and contribute to many aspects of their well being. Systematic genetic approaches to studying 'the clock' were initiated in fruitflies more than 2...

Topics

Animals
Biological Clocks
Circadian Rhythm
Drosophila
Gene Expression
Locomotion
Models, Molecular
Mutation
Phenotype
RNA, Messenger
Time Factors

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