Article
Natural variation in a Drosophila clock gene and temperature compensation.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 19 Dec 1997
Sawyer L A, Hennessy J M, Peixoto A A, Rosato E, Parkinson H, Costa R, Kyriacou C P
Abstract excerpt
The threonine-glycine (Thr-Gly) encoding repeat within the clock gene period of Drosophila melanogaster is polymorphic in length. The two major variants (Thr-Gly)17 and (Thr-Gly)20 are distributed as a highly significant latitudinal cline in Europe and North Africa. Thr-Gly length variation from...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Circadian Rhythm
- Dipeptides
- Drosophila Proteins
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Genes, Insect
- Genetic Variation
- Glycine
- Haplotypes
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nuclear Proteins
- Period Circadian Proteins
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid