Neuroanatomy of cells expressing clock genes in Drosophila: Transgenic manipulation of the period and timeless genes to mark the perikarya of circadian pacemaker neurons and their projections

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 422, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-94

  Kaneko, Maki ^a,b   Hall, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

galactosidase, TAU, and GFP marking; Circadian rhythms; Developing and adult insect brains; Per gal4 and tim gal4 fusion genes; Rhythm mutants

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INSECT; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0034686552     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(20000619)422:1<66::AID-CNE5>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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