Publication Date:
1994-03-18
Description:
Eclosion, or emergence of adult flies from the pupa, and locomotor activity of adults occur rhythmically in Drosophila melanogaster, with a circadian period of about 24 hours. Here, a clock mutation, timeless (tim), is described that produces arrhythmia for both behaviors. The effects of tim on behavioral rhythms are likely to involve products of the X chromosome-linked clock gene period (per), because tim alters circadian oscillations of per RNA. Genetic mapping places tim on the left arm of the second chromosome between dumpy (dp) and decapentaplegic (dpp).〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sehgal, A -- Price, J L -- Man, B -- Young, M W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Mar 18;263(5153):1603-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Biological Timing, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8128246" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Biological Clocks/*genetics
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Chromosome Mapping
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Circadian Rhythm/*genetics
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Drosophila Proteins
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Drosophila melanogaster/genetics/*physiology
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Gene Expression Regulation
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*Genes, Insect
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Metamorphosis, Biological
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Motor Activity
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Mutagenesis, Insertional
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Mutation
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Nuclear Proteins/*genetics/physiology
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Period Circadian Proteins
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RNA, Messenger/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
