Unexpected features of Drosophila circadian behavioural rhythms under natural conditions

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7394, 2012, Pages 371-375

  Vanin, Stefano ^a,c   Bhutani, Supriya ^b,d   Montelli, Stefano ^a   Menegazzi, Pamela ^a   Green, Edward W ^b   Pegoraro, Mirko ^a,b,e   Sandrelli, Federica ^a   Costa, Rodolfo ^a   Kyriacou, Charalambos P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FLY; LIGHT EFFECT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPE; SUBSTRATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; LIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOON; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CUES; DARKNESS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; ITALY; LABORATORIES; LIGHT; MALE; MOON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84859926266     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10991     Document Type: Article

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