Evolutionary BiologyThe EMBO JournalPeer-reviewed
Ancient cyanobacterial proto-circadian clock adapted to short day-night cycles ~ 0.95 billion years ago
Silin Li, Zengxuan Zhou, Wan Ching Yu…·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.