In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) functions as a
photoreceptor to entrain circadian oscillators to light-dark cycles and as a transcription factor …

Background Although most circadian clock components are conserved between Drosophila
and mammals, the roles assigned to the CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) proteins are very …

Photic entrainment of insect circadian rhythms can occur through either extraretinal (brain)
or retinal photoreceptors, which mediate sensitivity to blue light or longer wavelengths …

Light-activated cryptochrome (CRY) regulates circadian photoresponses in Drosophila
melanogaster. Removing the carboxy (C) terminus to create CRYΔ produces, in yeast, a …

The blue-light photoreceptive protein Cryptochrome (CRY) plays an important role in the
light synchronization of the Drosophila circadian clock. Previously, we found that among the …

In Drosophila, light affects circadian behavioral rhythms via at least two distinct mechanisms.
One of them relies on the visual phototransduction cascade. The other involves a …

Cryptochromes (CRYs) are blue-light-absorbing proteins involved in a variety of biological
phenomena. In animals, CRYs exhibit a certain versatility with regard to these organisms' …

Abstract cry (cryptochrome) is an important clock gene, and recent data indicate that it
encodes a critical circadian photoreceptor in Drosophila. A mutant allele, cry b, inhibits …

Animal flavoproteins called cryptochromes (CRYs) are generally believed to have distinct
circadian clock functions in insects and mammals: Drosophila has one CRY (dCRY) which …

Light is a major environmental signal for circadian rhythms. We have identified and analyzed
cry, a novel Drosophila cryptochrome gene. All characterized family members are directly …