Light entrainment of the circadian clock: the importance of the visual system for adjusting Drosophila melanogaster´s activity pattern

The change of day and night is one of the challenges all organisms are exposed to, as they have to adjust their physiology and behavior in an appropriate way. Therefore so called circadian clocks have evolved, which allow the organism to predict these cyclic changes of day and night. The underlying...

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Main Author: Schlichting, Matthias
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11445
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-114457
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-114457
https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/files/11445/Doktorarbeit_Schlichting_Matthias.pdf