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Even simple bacteria can anticipate the changing seasons

Even simple bacteria can anticipate the changing seasons

“The fact that an organism as old and as simple as a cyanobacterium can have photoperiodic responses suggests that this is a phenomenon that evolved much earlier than we might have imagined,” says Jabbur, who is now at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK.