The circadian clock of fruit flies is blind after elimination of all known photoreceptors

Neuron

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 249-261

  Helfrich Förster, Charlotte ^a   Winter, Christine ^b   Hofbauer, Alois ^b   Hall, Jeffrey C ^c   Stanewsky, Ralf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0035025621     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(01)00277-X     Document Type: Article

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