Temporal and spatial expression patterns of transgenes containing increasing amounts of the Drosophila clock gene period and a lacZ reporter: Mapping elements of the PER protein involved in circadian cycling

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 676-696

  Stanewsky, Ralf ^a   Frisch, Brigitte ^a   Brandes, Christian ^a,b   Hamblen Coyle, Melanie J ^a   Rosbash, Michael ^a   Hall, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

circadian rhythms; fusion proteins; immunochemistry; lacZ reporter; Lateral Neurons; locomotor behavior; period gene

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA; GENE MAPPING; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0031012161     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-02-00676.1997     Document Type: Article

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