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Peripheral targets of circadian clocks

ReferenceS13205
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Julian Dow
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Professor Shireen Davies
Institution University of Glasgow
DepartmentMolecular Genetics
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 244,280
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/11/2000
End date 31/10/2003
Duration36 months

Abstract

Circadian rhythms enable organisms to tune their interactions with the environment, and the nature of the clock mechanism is now being unravelled. We plan to address the targets of the clock, in the context of the Drosophila Malpighian (renal) tubule, that is known to possess an intrinsic, independent clock. This project will: 1) characterise the physiological properties of the tubule, throughout the light/dark cycle; 2) monitor circadian transcriptome-wide changes using microarrays; and 3) extend our analyses to the available mutants of period, timeless, clock, cycle and cryptochrome. In combination, these results will give a unique insight into the downstream targets of the circadian clock in Drosophila, and by inference, in other animals.

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Committee Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
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