Mario Leocadio Miguel
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Mario Leocadio Miguel
@leocadio-miguel.bsky.social
Chronobiologist and Sleep Researcher. Assistant Professor at Northumbria University, UK.
Reposted by Mario Leocadio Miguel
Incredibly proud to share this work, almost 6 years in the making, out this month in Science!!! 🎇

We've known for over a century that eukaryotes of all kinds anticipate the seasons (think: hibernation, flowering, reproduction!), but what about bacteria?🦠

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bacteria can anticipate the seasons: Photoperiodism in cyanobacteria
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 transformat...
www.science.org
September 9, 2024 at 7:10 PM