Cryptochrome is present in the compound eyes and a subset of Drosophila's clock neurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 508, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 952-966

  Yoshii, Taishi ^a   Todo, Takeshi ^b   Wülbeck, Corinna ^a   Stanewsky, Ralf ^c   Helfrich Förster, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circadian clock; Cryptochrome; Immunohistochemistry; Photoreception; Timeless

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA; LIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NEURONS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE;

EID: 43749091967     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21702     Document Type: Article

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