Cryptochrome, compound eyes, Hofbauer-Buchner eyelets, and ocelli play different roles in the entrainment and masking pathway of the locomotor activity rhythm in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 377-391

  Rieger, Dirk ^a   Stanewsky, Ralf ^a   Helfrich Förster, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Insects; Long days; Mutants; Photoreception; Short days; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPOUND EYE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOTYPE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT INTENSITY; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN FUNCTION; VISUAL MASKING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENOTYPE; LIGHT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0141453190     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730403256997     Document Type: Article

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