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The Bacterial Perspective on Circadian Clocks

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Circadian Rhythms in Bacteria and Microbiomes

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Prokaryotes were long thought to be incapable of expressing circadian (daily) rhythms. Research on nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in the 1980s squashed that dogma and showed that these bacteria could fulfill the criteria for circadian rhythmicity. Development of a luminescence reporter strain of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 established a model system that ultimately led to the best characterized circadian clockwork at a molecular level. The conclusion of this chapter lists references to the seminal discoveries that have come from the study of cyanobacterial circadian clocks.

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We thank Mr. Ian Dew for his artwork in Fig. 1. Research in Dr. Johnson’s laboratory is supported by the USA NIH/NIGMS (GM 067152 and GM 107434), and in Dr. Rust’s laboratory by NIH/NIGMS (GM 107369) and an HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar award.

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Johnson, C.H., Rust, M.J. (2021). The Bacterial Perspective on Circadian Clocks. In: Johnson, C.H., Rust, M.J. (eds) Circadian Rhythms in Bacteria and Microbiomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72158-9_1

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