Timeless is an essential component of the circadian clock in a primitive insect, the firebrat thermobia domestica

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 126-134

  Kamae, Yuichi ^a   Tomioka, Kenji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

circadian rhythm; clock gene; firebrat; molecular oscillation; timeless

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSECT; LIGHT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; APTERYGOTA; HEXAPODA; THERMOBIA DOMESTICA;

EID: 84859505208     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: 15524531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730411435997     Document Type: Article

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