| Title |
Photoperiodic diapause under the control of circadian clock genes in an insect
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Biology, September 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7007-8-116 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tomoko Ikeno, Shinichi I Tanaka, Hideharu Numata, Shin G Goto |
| Abstract |
Most organisms have evolved a circadian clock in order to anticipate daily environmental changes and many of these organisms are also capable of sophisticated measurement of daylength (photoperiodism) that is used to regulate seasonal events such as diapause, migration and polymorphism. It has been generally accepted that the same elements are involved in both circadian (daily) and seasonal (annual) rhythms because both rely upon daily light-dark cycles. However, as reasonable as this sounds, there remains no conclusive evidence of such a molecular machinery in insects. We have approached this issue by using RNA interference (RNAi) in Riptortus pedestris. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Japan | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Serbia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 152 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 50 | 31% |
| Researcher | 34 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 24 | 15% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 10 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 15 | 9% |
| Unknown | 21 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 98 | 60% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 20 | 12% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 2% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 5 | 3% |
| Unknown | 27 | 17% |