In mammals, molecular clocks regulate transcription and glucose homeostasis. One way they do so is by controlling glucocorticoid-receptor signalling, which suggests that clocks are embedded in liver metabolism. See Letter p.552
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Bass, J. On time metabolism. Nature 480, 466–467 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/480466a
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