Timing the day: what makes bacterial clocks tick?

Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 232 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.196

Authors: Carl Hirschie Johnson, Chi Zhao, Yao Xu & Tetsuya Mori
Chronobiological studies of prokaryotic organisms have generally lagged far behind the study of endogenous circadian clocks in eukaryotes, in which such systems are essentially ubiquitous. However, despite only being studied during the past 25 years, cyanobacteria have become important model organisms for the study of

Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - February 19, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Carl Hirschie Johnson Chi Zhao Yao Xu Tetsuya Mori Tags: Review Source Type: research