Cyanobacteria and Earth history / Andrew H. Knoll -- Insights into cyanobacterial evolution from comparative genomics / Wesley D. Swingley, Robert E. Blankenship, and Jason Raymond -- Gene transfer to ...

Ancestral cyanobacteria carried out photosynthesis at their plasma membrane. The emergence of thylakoids – internal membranes specialised in photosynthesis – is thought to have subsequently enabled ...

Cyanobacteria are a key species in Earth's history, as they introduced atmospheric oxygen for the first time. The analysis of their evolution therefore provides important insights into the formation ...

To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a Japanese research team has studied ancient timekeeping systems. They examined the oscillation of the clock proteins KaiA, KaiB, ...

This suggests that cyanobacteria may have evolved the ability to produce oxygen early on, but that it took a while for this oxygen to really take hold in the environment. "In evolution, things always ...

A team of researchers reconstructed long-extinct proteins of a UV protection system of cyanobacteria. The surprising result: the proteins were already compatible with each other when they first met.

Photosynthetic bacteria helped shape planet Earth. Among them are cyanobacteria that produced the oxygen in the atmosphere and made complex life possible, captivating scientists for decades. Now, ...

Scientists have decoded the atomic structure of Photosystem I from a 3-billion-year-old cyanobacteria lineage, offering a unique look at early oxygen-producing photosynthesis. The ancient nanodevice, ...

Researchers have long theorized that the evolution of complex life forms began when one cell engulfed another and the two formed a single entity. In a new study “Engineering artificial photosynthetic ...

A field of view (Sample A, WT-short) with both the phase contrast channel and then the autofluorescence pseudocolored bright green. The scale bar is 5 micrometers. Being able to correlate changes in ...