Understanding systems-level properties: Timely stories from the study of clocks

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 407-416

  Hogenesch, John B ^a   Ueda, Hiroki R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Laboratory for Systems Biology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPREHENSION; CYANOPHAGE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; LUMINESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79956300350     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2972     Document Type: Review

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