Circadian clocks - The fall and rise of physiology

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 965-971

  Roenneberg, Till ^a   Merrow, Martha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASTRONOMY; AUTOREGULATION; BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 28844502722     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1766     Document Type: Review

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