CONSERVED CLOCKS. “It is not surprising such clocks have been documented frequently in organisms ranging from photosensitive cyanobacteria to humans. The key genes involved in animal circadian clocks are highly conserved. For example, there is high homology among core insect and human circadian clock genes, and recent work on circadian clocks in the cnidarian, Nematostella vectensis, reveals a high similarity of the cnidarian clock to both insect and mammalian clocks, thus implying an early evolution of clocks within animals.”
http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/1/131.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022