Open AccessLet there be light!: Clock photoreceptors and the need for rhythm
Author(s) -
Christian Heintzen,
Mark Elvin,
Nathan Price-Lloyd
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the biochemist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1740-1194
pISSN - 0954-982X
DOI - 10.1042/bio02601007
Subject(s) - biological clock , circadian rhythm , rhythm , circadian clock , bacterial circadian rhythms , harmony (color) , biology , neuroscience , chronobiology , physics , medicine , optics
Light is one of the major signals that keep biological clocks in harmony with the outside world. Consequently, if we want to understand how circadian clocks function at the molecular level, a study of the lightinput pathways to the clock is of fundamental importance.
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