Environmental cycles regulate development time via circadian clock mediated gating of adult emergence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies have implicated a role for circadian clocks in regulating pre-adult development of organisms. Among them two approaches are most notable: 1) use of insects whose clocks have different free-running periods and 2) imposition of artificial selection on either rate of development, timing of emergence or circadian period in laboratory populations. Using these two approaches, influence of clock on rate of development has been elucidated. However, the contribution of circadian clocks in determining time taken for pre-adult development has remained unclear. Here we present results of our studies aimed to understand this influence by examining populations of fruit flies carrying three different alleles of the period gene and hence having different free-running pe

SUBMITTER: Srivastava M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303858 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature