Ancient cyanobacterial proto-circadian clock adapted to short day-night cycles ~ 0.95 billion years ago
Silin Li, Zengxuan Zhou, Wan Ching Yu, Xudong Jia, Peiliang Wang, Yu Wang, Taisen Zuo, Cheng He, Xiaoting Fang, Shuqi Dong, Jun He, Yilin Yang, Yichen Xu, Shaoxuan Fu, Xujing Wang, , Jinhu Guo
The paper reconstructs an ancient cyanobacterial circadian clock from ~0.95 billion years ago and shows it adapts to 18-h day-night cycles but lacks endogenous oscillation.
The EMBO Journal · Apr 10, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology