Blue light activation of the photoreceptor CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) evokes rapid
depolarization and increased action potential firing in a subset of circadian and arousal …

Drosophila melanogaster CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) mediates behavioral and
electrophysiological responses to blue light coded by circadian and arousal neurons …

Drosophila CRYPTOCHROME (dCRY) mediates electrophysiological depolarization and
circadian clock resetting in response to blue or ultraviolet (UV) light. These light-evoked …

Light-responsive neural activity in central brain neurons is generally conveyed through
opsin-based signaling from external photoreceptors. Large lateral ventral arousal neurons …

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' …

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

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

Drosophila melanogaster shows exquisite light sensitivity for modulation of circadian
functions in vivo, yet the activities of the Drosophila circadian photopigment cryptochrome …

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 …

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 …