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Single-cell Resolution Fluorescence Live Imaging of Drosophila Circadian Clocks in Larval Brain Culture
Published on: January 19, 2018
Neurobiology of the fruit fly's circadian clock
1Universität Regensburg, Institut für Zoologie, Universitätsstrasse, Regensburg, Germany. charlotte.foerster@biologie.uni-regensburg.de
Genes, Brain, and Behavior
|February 22, 2005
Abstract:
Studying the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has revealed mechanisms underlying circadian clock function. Rhythmic behavior could be assessed to the function of several clock genes that generate circadian oscillations in certain brain neurons, which finally modulate behavior in a circadian manner. This review outlines how individual circadian pacemaker neurons in the fruit fly's brain control rhythm in locomotor activity and eclosion.

