The Circadian Clock Improves Fitness in the Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster

It is assumed that a properly timed circadian clock enhances fitness, but only few studies have truly demonstrated this in animals. We raised each of the three classical Drosophila period mutants for >50 generations in the laboratory in competition with wildtype flies. The populations were either...

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Published in:Front Physiol
Main Authors: Horn, Melanie, Mitesser, Oliver, Hovestadt, Thomas, Yoshii, Taishi, Rieger, Dirk, Helfrich-Förster, Charlotte
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Physiology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838225/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31736790
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.01374
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