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Nature 392, 871-874 (30 April 1998) | doi:10.1038/31821
Molecular clocks: mastering time by gene regulation
Paolo Sassone-Corsi1
Self-sustaining clocks that regulate daily and seasonal rhythms are found in many biological systems, from fungi to humans. The structure and function of the molecular gears that control these clocks through the finely tuned regulation of gene expression are now being unravelled.
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Paolo Sassone-Corsi is at the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM, Université Louis Pasteur, BP 163, 67404 Illkirch, Strasbourg, France.
e-mail: Email: paolosc@igbmc.u-strasbg.fr
