• DOI:10.1038/nature11704
Corpus ID: 27778254

Circadian topology of metabolism

@article{Bass2012CircadianTO,
  title={Circadian topology of metabolism},
  author={J. Bass},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2012},
  volume={491},
  pages={348-356}
}

J. Bass

Published 2012

Biology, Medicine

Nature

Biological clocks are genetically encoded oscillators that allow organisms to anticipate changes in the light–dark environment that are tied to the rotation of Earth. Clocks enhance fitness and growth in prokaryotes, and they are expressed throughout the central nervous system and peripheral tissues of multicelled organisms in which they influence sleep, arousal, feeding and metabolism. Biological clocks capture the imagination because of their tie to geophysical time, and tools are now in hand… CONTINUE READING

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