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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2019 Aug 14;36:74–81. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2019.08.003

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

The structure of the insect circadian clock in mosquitoes and other insects. The positive transcription factors CLOCK (CLK) and CYCLE (CYC) regulate the expression of the core clock genes, period (per), timeless (tim) and cryptochrome2 (cry2), whose respective proteins inhibit the action of CLK and CYC, thereby repressing their own transcription. The TIM protein is degraded by CRY1 in the presence of light (Adapted from [53]).