Weather and Seasons Together Demand Complex Biological Clocks

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 1961-1964

  Troein, Carl ^a   Locke, James C W ^b   Turner, Matthew S ^c   Millar, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

SYSBIO

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; REGULATOR GENE; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEATHER;

BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; GENES, REGULATOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS; WEATHER;

EID: 70450173299     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.09.024     Document Type: Article

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