DCRY is a Drosophila photoreceptor protein implicated in light entrainment of circadian rhythm

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-65

  Ishikawa, Tomoko ^a   Matsumoto, Akira ^b   Kato Jr , Tomohisa ^a   Togashi, Shin ^c   Ryo, Haruko ^d   Ikenaga, Mituo ^a   Todo, Takeshi ^a   Ueda, Ryu ^c   Tanimura, Teiichi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LIGHT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033062009     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00237.x     Document Type: Article

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