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Single-cell Resolution Fluorescence Live Imaging of Drosophila Circadian Clocks in Larval Brain Culture
Published on: January 19, 2018
The in(put)s and out(put)s of the Drosophila circadian clock
Catharine E Boothroyd1, Michael W Young
1Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|July 2, 2008
Abstract:
Circadian clocks are aligned to the 24-h environmental day via zeitgebers, and information from the clock must be relayed to the rest of the organism. Recent studies addressing temperature as an input to, and the generation of rhythmic gene expression as an output from, the Drosophila central clock are discussed.
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