An extraretinally expressed insect cryptochrome with similarity to the blue light photoreceptors of mammals and plants

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3665-3673

  Egan, Elizabeth S ^a   Franklin, Tina M ^a   Hilderbrand Chae, Marla J ^a   McNeil, Gerard P ^a   Roberts, Mary A ^a   Schroeder, Andrew J ^a   Zhang, Xiaolan ^a   Jackson, F Rob ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue light; Circadian; Cryptochrome; Drosophila; Extraretinal; Photoreceptor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLOR; DROSOPHILA; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0033562784     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-10-03665.1999     Document Type: Article

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