Genetics and molecular biology of rhythms in Drosophila and other insects /

• Main Author: Hall, Jeffrey C.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego : Academic Press, Ã2003.
• Series: Advances in genetics ; v. 48.
• Subjects: Biological rhythms.; Insects > Genetics.; Insects > Molecular aspects.; Drosophila > Genetics.; Drosophila > Molecular aspects.; Electronic books.

Biological rhythms, such as the sleep-wake cycle or circadian clock, are an intriguing aspect of biology. The regulation of daily rhythmicity has long been a mystery, up until the mid-1980's when a key gene in the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, was molecularly identified. Genetic and molecu...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Mutants used to identify cells and tissues that mediate inputs to circadian pacemakers in Drosophila
• Mutants apparently defective in central-pacemaking functions underlying Drosophila's circadian rhythmicity
• Additional mutants with defects in daily cycles and other time-based phenotypes
• Molecular genetics of central-pacemaking functions
• Places and times of clock-gene expressions
• Natural variants of clock genes, including interspecific studies
• Temperature changes and how clock-gene products are involved in compensating for them
• Molecular genetics of clock resetting by environmental stimuli
• Gene-defined functions connecting central pacemaking to circadian chronobiology
• Conclusion.