Circadian rhythms in Mexican blind cavefish Astyanax mexicanus in the lab and in the field

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Beale, Andrew ^a   Guibal, Christophe ^a,b   Tamai, T Katherine ^a   Klotz, Linda ^a   Cowen, Sophie ^a   Peyric, Elodie ^a   Reynoso, Víctor H ^b   Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki ^a   Whitmore, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PER2 PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FIELDWORK; GENE EXPRESSION; LABORATORY METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; TELEOST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS; CAVE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRY1A GENE; DNA REPAIR; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; LABORATORY; LIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PER1 GENE; PER2 GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; TEF1 GENE;

AMBLYOPSIDAE; ASTYANAX FASCIATUS MEXICANUS; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAVES; CHARACIDAE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA REPAIR; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84889583371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3769     Document Type: Article

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