Developmental Biology: When Less Damage Causes More Harm.
Circadian clocks are important timekeepers of physiological processes. A new report shows that silencing the circadian clock specifically in steroid-producing cells of Drosophila disrupts development and causes lethality, and is more detrimental than having no clock at all.
Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: Kim.Rewitz@bio.ku.dk.
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D000818:Animals; D057906:Circadian Clocks; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D015509:Developmental Biology; D004330:Drosophila; D029721:Drosophila Proteins
D029721:Drosophila Proteins