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Review
. 2001 Sep;2(9):702-15.
doi: 10.1038/35088576.

Time zones: a comparative genetics of circadian clocks

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Time zones: a comparative genetics of circadian clocks

M W Young et al. Nat Rev Genet. 2001 Sep.

Abstract

The circadian clock is a widespread cellular mechanism that underlies diverse rhythmic functions in organisms from bacteria and fungi, to plants and animals. Intense genetic analysis during recent years has uncovered many of the components and molecular mechanisms comprising these clocks. Although autoregulatory genetic networks are a consistent feature in the design of all clocks, the weight of evidence favours their independent evolutionary origins in different kingdoms.

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