Sleep is a highly conserved and essential behaviour in many species, including the fruit fly
Drosophila melanogaster. In the wild, sensory signalling encoding environmental …

Rhodopsin 7 (Rh7), a new invertebrate Rhodopsin gene, was discovered in the genome of
Drosophila melanogaster in 2000, but its function has remained elusive. We generated an …

The present chapter describes the circadian clock system in fruit flies starting with the
molecular mechanisms that generate circadian rhythms and then moving to the organismic …

Drosophila CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) is a blue light sensitive protein with a key role in
circadian photoreception. A main feature of CRY is that light promotes an interaction with the …

An organism's biological day is characterized by a pattern of anticipatory physiological and
behavioral changes that are governed by circadian clocks to align with the 24-h cycling …

Exploiting invertebrates, such as the fruit fly Drosophila or nematode Caenorhabditis, with a
modifiable genome seems to be key to answering the fundamental question of the molecular …

In the present study, we showed that in the retina of Drosophila, the expression of the ho
gene, encoding haeme oxygenase (HO), is regulated by light but only at the beginning of the …

Abstract Rhodopsin 7 (Rh7), a new invertebrate Rhodopsin gene, was discovered in the
genome of Drosophila melanogaster in 2000 and thought to encode for a functional …

Purpose: Extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic fields as essential ecological factors may
induce specific responses in genetically different lines. The object of this study was to …