Environmental cycles regulate development time via circadian clock mediated gating of adult emergence

Abstract Background Previous studies have implicated a role for circadian clocks in regulating pre-adult development of organisms. Among them two approaches are most notable: 1) use of insects whose clocks have different free-running periods and 2) imposition of artificial selection on either rate o...

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Main Authors: Manishi Srivastava, Anjana James, Vishwanath Varma, Vijay Kumar Sharma, Vasu Sheeba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:BMC Developmental Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12861-018-0180-6