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SUBMITTER: Huang RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6138759 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biomedical journal 20180201 1
Circadian clocks evolved to allow plants and animals to adapt their behaviors to the 24-hr change in the external environment due to the Earth's rotation. While the first scientific observation of circadian rhythm in the plant leaf movement may be dated back to the early 18th century, it took 200 years to realize that the leaf movement is controlled by an endogenous circadian clock. The cloning and characterization of the first Drosophila clock gene period in the early 1980s, independently by Je ...[more]