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Circadian rhythms in fruit flies drosophila under natural conditions

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dc.contributor.advisor Vasu, Sheeba en_US
dc.contributor.author De, Joydeep en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2014-11-21T12:15:13Z
dc.date.available 2014-11-21T12:15:13Z
dc.date.issued 2013 en_US
dc.identifier.citation De, Joydeep. 2013, Circadian rhythms in fruit flies drosophila under natural conditions, MS thesis, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru
dc.identifier.uri https://libjncir.jncasr.ac.in/xmlui/10572/1442 en_US
dc.description Open Access en_US
dc.description.abstract Life forms on the earth have to experience and cope with several diurnal and annual geophysical cycles such as light and temperature. It is believed that organisms have evolved mechanisms in order to accomplish the task of synchronizing their behavioral, physiological and biochemical processes to the periodic environmental cycles (Vaze & Sharma, 2013), through the evolution of biological timekeeping systems or clocks. Many of the rhythmic phenomena in a diverse range of organisms have been shown to be regulated endogenously by their clocks (Pittendrigh, 1960), rather than just a mere response to the periodic variations in the environmental conditions. Biological oscillators with a periodicity of close to 24 hours (circa = almost, dian = day) are referred to as circadian clocks. In addition, these oscillators need to need to satisfy a few criteria in order to be called circadian clocks, such as, 1) they must be endogenously generated 2) they must be self-sustained – i.e., the oscillation must persist (free-run) even in the absence of any periodic time-cue (or, zeitgeber; zeit = time, geber = giver) 3) they can be synchronized by periodic light/dark cycle by a process known as ‘entrainment’ 4) they must be temperature-compensated - the period of the oscillator should remain unaltered within a physiologically tolerable range of temperatures (Pittendrigh, 1960).
dc.language.iso English en_US
dc.publisher Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research en_US
dc.rights © 2013 JNCASR en_US
dc.subject Drosophila melanogaster en_US
dc.subject Circadian rhythms en_US
dc.title Circadian rhythms in fruit flies drosophila under natural conditions en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dc.type.qualificationlevel Master en_US
dc.type.qualificationname MS en_US
dc.publisher.department Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit en_US


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