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In the Proceedings of Endocytobiology III, I had the opportunity to outline some ideas about how the evolution of cellular clocks may have occurred concomitantly with the evolution of eukaryotic cells (Kippert 1987). I speculated whether internal timekeeping might have been the initial selective advantage that cellular clocks provided to an endocytobiotic consortium developing into the early eukaryotic cell-a hypothesis which constituted a link between the fields of chronobiology and endocytobiology. Since then, there have been exciting developments in both fields. Much of the progress made in chronobiological research is of significance in evolutionary terms and is more ore less related to the field of endocytobiology. Thus, for Endocytobiology VI it may be timely to review this progress. The aim of the present review is to present briefly those recent findings that may be of relevance to our understanding of the evolution of cellular clocks, and discuss what this may tell us about today’s oscillator mechanisms.
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Kippert, F. (1997). Chronobiology and Endocytobiology: Where do They Meet?. In: Schenk, H.E.A., Herrmann, R.G., Jeon, K.W., Müller, N.E., Schwemmler, W. (eds) Eukaryotism and Symbiosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60885-8_13
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