Academics discover variation in circadian clock protein in fruit flies

The circadian clock is a molecular network that generates daily rhythms, and is present in both plants and animals.

A University of Leicester research team led by Dr Eran Tauber has studied genetic variation in circadian clock genes in wild populations of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster – and has discovered that their genes have developed different genetic variations that are functionally important.

Here, Professor Bambos Kyriacou at the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester talks about fruit flies, and circadian rhythms.

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