Twilight Times: Light and the Circadian System

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 549-561

  Roenneberg, Till ^a   Foster, Russell G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; MAMMAL; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; MAMMALS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOBIOLOGY;

EID: 0031266567     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb03188.x     Document Type: Review

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