Functional and evolutionary implications of natural variation in clock genes.

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Nearly all studies of natural variation within clock genes involve the period (per) locus, which was originally isolated in the fruit-fly. Intra- and interspecific work on per has focused mostly on a region of Thr-Gly or Ser-Gly repeats, which show rapid length and sequence evolution. The functional implications of nucleotide variation in this repetitive array have been characterised using behavioural, molecular,...

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