A blind circadian clock in cavefish reveals that opsins mediate peripheral clock photoreception

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Cavallari, Nicola ^a,b   Frigato, Elena ^a   Vallone, Daniela ^b   Fröhlich, Nadine ^b   Lopez Olmeda, Jose Fernando ^b,c   Foà, Augusto ^a   Berti, Roberto ^d   Sánchez Vázquez, Francisco Javier ^c   Bertolucci, Cristiano ^a   Foulkes, Nicholas S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN; OPSIN; SCOTOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CAVEFISH; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMBLYOPSIDAE; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; OPSINS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; ROD OPSINS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 80053299067     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001142     Document Type: Article

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