Circadian clocks in changing weather and seasons: Lessons from the picoalga ostreococcus tauri

BioEssays

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 781-790

  Pfeuty, Benjamin ^a   Thommen, Quentin ^a   Corellou, Florence ^b   Djouani Tahri, El Batoul ^b   Bouget, Francois Yves ^b   Lefranc, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

^b Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls Mer   (France)

Author keywords

Circadian clocks; Entrainment; Flexibility; Photoperiod; Robustness

Indexed keywords

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EUKARYOTE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; OSTREOCOCCUS; OSTREOCOCCUS TAURI; REVIEW; SEASON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGAL PROTEINS; CHLOROPHYTA; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WEATHER;

EUKARYOTA; OSTREOCOCCUS TAURI;

EID: 84865161612     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201200012     Document Type: Review

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