Different period gene repeats take 'turns' at fine-tuning the circadian clock

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1435, 1999, Pages 2283-2288

  Guantieri, V ^a   Pepe, A ^b   Zordan, M ^a   Kyriacou, C P ^c   Costa, R ^a   Tamburro, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circadian clock; Conformational analysis; Drosophila; Repeats; Temperature compensation

Indexed keywords

PENTAPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033596075     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0920     Document Type: Article

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