The clock gene period of the housefly, Musca domestica, rescues behavioral rhythmicity in Drosophila melanogaster: Evidence for intermolecular coevolution?

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 747-758

  Piccin, Alberto ^a,b   Couchman, Martin ^a,c   Clayton, Jonathan D ^a   Chalmers, David ^a,d   Costa, Rodolfo ^b   Kyriacou, Charalambos P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ETS/FC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOUSE FLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOUSEFLIES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANTHERAEA PERNYI; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; MUSCA DOMESTICA;

EID: 0033954054     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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