Binary Switching of Calendar Cells in the Pituitary Defines the Phase of the Circannual Cycle in Mammals

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 2651-2662

  Wood, Shona H ^a   Christian, Helen C ^b   Miedzinska, Katarzyna ^c   Saer, Ben R C ^a   Johnson, Mark ^b   Paton, Bob ^c   Yu, Le ^c   McNeilly, Judith ^d   Davis, Julian R E ^e   McNeilly, Alan S ^d   Burt, David W ^c   Loudon, Andrew S I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; MALE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEEP; TSH SECRETING CELL;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; SHEEP; THYROTROPHS;

EID: 84945574726     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.014     Document Type: Article

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