Functional and evolutionary implications of natural variation in clock genes

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 659-664

  Costa, Rodolfo ^b   Kyriacou, Charalambos P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; SERINE; THREONINE;

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA; ECOLOGY; FLY; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 18244415231     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(98)80096-2     Document Type: Article

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