Finding New Clock Components: Past and Future
Open Access
- 1 October 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Biological Rhythms
- Vol. 19 (5), 339-347
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730404269151
Abstract
The molecular mechanism of circadian clocks has been unraveled primarily by the use of phenotype-driven (forward) genetic analysis in a number of model systems. We are now in a position to consider what constitutes a clock component, whether we can establish criteria for clock components, and whether we have found most of the primary clock components. This perspective discusses clock genes and how genetics, molecular biology, and biochemistry have been used to find clock genes in the past and how they will be used in the future.Keywords
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