READ ME File for all datasets from 'Light-Mediated Switching of Circadian Pacemaker Function Across the Neural Clock Circuit of Drosophila'

Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D3421

Date that the file was created: March, 2025

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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ReadMe Author: MICHAEL PRICE, University of Southampton [0009-0006-0990-8586]

Date of data collection: October 2019-April 2023

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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC BY


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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This dataset contains:
Chapter 3 Compiled Data.xlsx - Excel data for all genotypes in C3.
dsPdf Pdftim01 Analysis 221020.xlsx - Excel data for PDF RNAi and PDF-null mutants in C4 and C5.
Output KOs 210914.xlsx - Excel data for CRISPR-generated knockouts used in C5.
Phase Shift Data.xlsx - Excel data for phase shift experiment in C4.
PPM3 Neuron Data3 211210.xlsx - Excel data for dopamine output pathway in C5.
sensGal4 211210.xlsx - Excel data for R6neuron>TNT in C4.
sensGal4 Extreme Photocycles 211210.xlsx - Excel data for R6neuron>TNT in extreme photocycles in C4.

dsPDF Analysis 230120.pptx - Locomotor assay figures for C4 and C5.
DNcyc Data 230120.pptx - Locomotor assay figures for C3.
Output KOs 210914.pptx - Locomotor assay figures for C5.
PER rescue Data 230120.pptx - Locomotor assay figures for C3.
PdfrXtim01 230830.pptx - Locomotor assay figures for C5.
per4gRNA Data 230120.pptx - Locomotor assay figures for C3.
PPM3 Neuron TNT Data210602.pptx - Locomotor assay figures for C5.
sensGal4 Data210226.pptx - Locomotor assay figures for C4.
sensGal4-TNT Extreme Photocyles 231220.pptx - Locomotor assay figures for C4.
tim3gRNA Data 230120.pptx - Locomotor assay figures for C3.


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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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Data collected using DAM locomotor assay system, as described in thesis.
Analysis of data used ClockLab, GraphPad and Excel, making use of the Fisher Exact Probability Test, Kruskal-Wallis Tests and Mann-Whitney tests, as described in thesis.