14 December 2024
24-Hour Connections
The biological time keeper or circadian clock that helps us and most other animals adapt to our environment over a 24-hour period is the consequence of oscillations in certain molecules in a network of neurons. This study identifies the nervous connections and signals – creating a synaptic connectome map – behind circadian regulation in the fruit fly
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Image captured with Leica Microsystems microscopy
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- Still from video from work by Nils Reinhard and Ayumi Fukuda, and colleagues
- Neurobiology and Genetics, Theodor-Boveri-Institute, Biocenter, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, Germany
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Nature Communications, December 2024
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