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Circadian Synchronization and Rhythmicity in Larval Photoperception-Defective Mutants of Drosophila

Sébastien Malpel

Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard, CNRS UPR 2216 (NGI), 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

André Klarsfeld

Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard, CNRS UPR 2216 (NGI), 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

François Rouyer

Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard, CNRS UPR 2216 (NGI), 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, rouyer{at}iaf.cnrs-gif.fr

A single light episode during the first larval stage can set the phase of adult Drosophila activity rhythms, showing that a light-sensitive circadian clock is functional in larvae and is capable of keeping time throughout development. These behavioral data are supported by the finding that neurons expressing clock proteins already exist in the larval brain and appear to be connected to the larval visual system. To define the photoreceptive pathways of the larval clock, the authors investigated circadian synchronization during larval stages in various visual systems and/or cryptochrome-defective strains. They show that adult activity rhythms cannot be entrained by light applied to larvae lacking both cryptochrome and the visual system, although such rhythms were entrained by larval stage-restricted temperature cycles. Larvae lacking either pathway alone were light entrainable, but the phase of the resulting adult rhythm was advanced relative to wild-type flies. Unexpectedly, adult behavioral rhythms of the glass60j and norpAP24 visual system mutants that were entrained in the same conditions were found to be severely impaired, in contrast to those of the wild type. Extension of the entrainment until the adult stage restored close to wild-type behavioral rhythms in the mutants. The results show that both cryptochrome and the larval visual system participate to circadian photoreception in larvae and that mutations affecting the visual system can impair behavioral rhythmicity.

Key Words: circadian • drosophila • larval clock • photoreception • cryptochrome • Bolwig organ • locomotor activity • eclosion

Journal of Biological Rhythms, Vol. 19, No. 1, 10-21 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0748730403260621
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