Genetics and Molecular Biology of Rhythms in Drosophila and Other Insects

Introduction; Mutants Used to Identify Cells and Tissues that Mediate In puts to Circadian Pacemakers in Drosophila; Mutatants Apparentl y Defective in Central-Pacemaking Functions Underlying Drosophila’s< /EM> Circadian Rhythmicity; Additional Mutants Found in Screen for Rhyth m Variants; Additional Mutants with Defects in Daily Cycles and other Ti me-Based Phenotypes; Molecular Genetics of Central-Pacemaking Functions; Places and Times of Clock-Gene Expressions; Natural Variants of Clock G enes, Including Interspecific Studies; Temperature Changes and how Clock -Gene Products are Involved in Compensating for Them; Molecular Genetics of Clock Re-Setting by Environmental Stimuli; Gene-Defined Functions Co nnecting Central Pacemaking to Circadian Chronobiology; Conclusion