ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2024
Bacteria can anticipate the seasons: Photoperiodism in cyanobacteria.
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- Splicing of a core circadian clock gene regulates seasonal adaptations by a winter gating mechanism.Science advances · 2026Article
- Revitalizing the "biology" in "chronobiology".Npj biological timing and sleep · 2026Review
- Nocturnal hydration prepares desert cyanobacteria for dawn-light harvesting by inducing phycoerythrin synthesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Light sensing enhances thermotolerance and competitive fitness via serotonergic signaling in an eyeless organism.Cell research · 2026Article
- Time after time - circadian clocks through the lens of oscillator theory.FEBS letters · 2026Review
- Could photoperiodic responses have evolved before the emergence of circadian clocks?The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Splicing of a core clock gene regulates seasonal adaptations by a winter gating mechanism.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Unsaturated fat alters clock phosphorylation to align rhythms to the season in mice.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Circadian regulation of key physiological processes by the RITMO1 clock protein in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- When lowering temperature, the in vivo circadian clock in cyanobacteria follows and surpasses the in vitro protein clock trough the Hopf bifurcation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Red-light signaling pathway activates desert cyanobacteria to prepare for desiccation tolerance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Time to start taking time seriously: how to investigate unexpected biological rhythms within infectious disease research.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Light-driven diel oscillations in microbial metabolism underpin estuarine biogeochemical resilience.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2025Review
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Abstract
Photoperiodic time measurement is the ability of plants and animals to measure differences in day versus night length (photoperiod) and use that information to anticipate critical seasonal transformations, such as annual temperature cycles. This timekeeping phenomenon triggers adaptive responses in higher organisms, such as gonadal stimulation, flowering, and hibernation. Unexpectedly, we observed this capability in cyanobacteria-unicellular prokaryotes with generation times as short as 5 to 6 hours. Cyanobacteria exposed to short, winter-like days developed enhanced resistance to cold mediated by desaturation of membrane lipids and differential programs of gene transcription, including stress response pathways. As in eukaryotes, this photoperiodic timekeeping required an intact circadian clockwork and developed over multiple cycles of photoperiod. Therefore, photoperiodic timekeeping evolved in much simpler organisms than previously appreciated and enabled genetic responses to stresses that recur seasonally.
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