Comprehensive modelling of the neurospora circadian clock and its temperature compensation

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Tseng, Yu Yao ^a   Hunt, Suzanne M ^a   Heintzen, Christian ^a   Crosthwaite, Susan K ^a   Schwartz, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CIRCADIAN CLOCK; CLOCK COMPONENT; COMPREHENSIVE MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CONSTANT CONDITIONS; DAILY CHANGE; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; NEUROSPORA CIRCADIAN CLOCK; TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED; TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION;

CLOCKS;

FREQUENCY PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHITE COLLAR 1 PROTEIN; WHITE COLLAR 2 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY GENE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; OSCILLATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RNA GENE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHITE COLLAR 1 GENE; WHITE COLLAR 2 GENE;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 84861125642     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002437     Document Type: Article

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