Reduced Models of the Circadian Oscillators in Neurospora crassa and Drosophila melanogaster Illustrate Mechanistic Similarities

OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 337-354

  Smolen, Paul ^a   Baxter, Douglas A ^a   Byrne, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN FRQ; PROTEIN WC 1; PROTEIN WC 2; PROTEIN WCC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIGHT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0346250849     PISSN: 15362310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/153623103322637661     Document Type: Article

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