A modern circadian clock in the common angiosperm ancestor of monocots and eudicots

BMC Biology

Commentary

C Robertson McClung¹ 

[1] Department of Biological Sciences, 6044 Gilman Laboratories, Dartmouth College, 03755, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA;

关键词: Circadian Clock;    Clock Gene;    Genome Duplication;    Clock Function;    Clock Component;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1741-7007-8-55

 received in 2010-04-14, accepted in 2010-05-07,  发布年份 2010

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

The circadian clock enhances fitness through temporal organization of plant gene expression, metabolism and physiology. Two recent studies, one in BMC Evolutionary Biology, demonstrate through phylogenetic analysis of the CCA1/LHY and TOC1/PRR gene families that the common ancestor of monocots and eudicots had components sufficient to construct a circadian clock consisting of multiple interlocked feedback loops.See research article http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/126

【 授权许可】

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© McClung; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.