Decoding transcriptional regulation in response to sunlight in vertebrates: Circadian clocks and beyond
Alessandra Boiti, Yuhang Hong, Hongxiang Li, Rima Siauciunaite, Yi Bi, Daniela Vallone, Nicholas S. Foulkes · FENS Forum 2024
Circadian clocks, endogenous oscillators that synchronize biological processes with the environmental day-night cycle, are entrained by external cues, notably sunlight. However, this mechanism is remarkably diverse across species. Mammals exhibit a hierarchical circadian system centered around the suprachiasmatic nucleus, while fish present a more distributed system with tissues directly responding to sunlight. Through mRNA-sequencing and promoter analysis, we explored the cellular transcriptional response to sunlight in zebrafish (D. rerio) and blind cavefish (P. andruzzii), the latter servin
ePoster · Neuroscience