Insect cryptochromes: Gene duplication and loss define diverse ways to construct insect circadian clocks

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 948-955

  Yuan, Quan ^a   Metterville, Danielle ^a   Briscoe, Adriana D ^b   Reppert, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian clocks; CLOCK; Cryptochromes; CYCLE; Monarch butterfly; Photoreceptor; Transcriptional activity

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME; CRYPTOCHROME 2; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BUMBLEBEE; CELL CULTURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLEOPTERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HONEYBEE; HYMENOPTERA; INHIBITION KINETICS; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEETLES; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS IMPATIENS; COLEOPTERA; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; METAZOA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34047220139     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm011     Document Type: Article

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