Constructing the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: A Watchmaker’s Perspective on the Central Clockworks

The circadian system constrains an organism’s palette of behaviors to portions of the solar day appropriate to its ecological niche. The central light-entrained clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the mammalian circadian system has evolved a complex network of interdependent signaling mec...

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Main Authors: Joseph eBedont, Seth eBlackshaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2015.00074/full