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Time Travels: A 40‐Year Journey from Drosophila's Clock Mutants to Human Circadian Disorders (Nobel Lecture)
Author(s) -
Young Michael W.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201803337
Subject(s) - circadian rhythm , biological clock , circadian clock , drosophila (subgenus) , adaptation (eye) , chronobiology , key (lock) , physiology , biology , timeless , rhythm , neuroscience , cognitive science , genetics , psychology , medicine , ecology , gene
Living organisms have a biological clock that helps to prepare our physiology for the fluctuations of the day. Key research to elucidate the biological mechanisms of this regular adaptation, referred to as the circadian rhythm, is described by M. W. Young in his Nobel lecture.