Time zones: A comparative genetics of circadian clocks

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 702-715

  Young, Michael W ^a   Kay, Steve A ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FUNGI;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; NEUROSPORA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA; NEUROSPORA; PLANTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0035458732     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35088576     Document Type: Article

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