A third member of the photolyase/blue-light photoreceptor family in Drosophila: A putative circadian photoreceptor

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-107

  Selby, Christopher P ^a   Sancar, Aziz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER;

DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTO-LYASE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE;

EID: 0032618566     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb05313.x     Document Type: Article

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