Natural variation in a Drosophila clock gene and temperature compensation

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5346, 1997, Pages 2117-2120

  Sawyer, Lesley A ^a   Hennessy, J Michael ^a   Peixoto, Alexandre A ^a,c   Rosato, Ezio ^a   Parkinson, Helen ^a   Costa, Rodolfo ^b   Kyriacou, Charalambos P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Depto Bioquim Biol Molec F   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIPEPTIDES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; GLYCINE; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TEMPERATURE; THREONINE; TRANSGENES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031442734     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5346.2117     Document Type: Article

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33. We thank the U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the U.K. National Environment Research Council (NERC), and the Human Frontier Science Program for grants to C.P.K. and the European Commission for a grant to C.P.K and R.C. We acknowledge a NERC studentship to L.S., a BBSRC studentship to H.P., a Brazilian CNPq scholarship to A.A.P., and a Ministero Universitá Ricerca Scientifica Tecnologica-British Council award for Anglo-Italian cooperation to C.P.K. and R.C.