Clock Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster
Abstract
Three mutants have been isolated in which the normal 24-hour rhythm is drastically changed. One mutant is arrhythmic; another has a period of 19 hr; a third has a period of 28 hr. Both the eclosion rhythm of a population and the locomotor activity of individual flies are affected. All these mutations appear to involve the same functional gene on the X chromosome.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- September 1971
- DOI:
- 10.1073/pnas.68.9.2112
- Bibcode:
- 1971PNAS...68.2112K