[HTML][HTML] Exposure to artificial light at night and the consequences for flora, fauna, and ecosystems

J Falcón, A Torriglia, D Attia, F Viénot… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The present review draws together wide-ranging studies performed over the last decades
that catalogue the effects of artificial-light-at-night (ALAN) upon living species and their …

Freshwater neurotoxins and concerns for human, animal, and ecosystem health: A review of anatoxin-a and saxitoxin

VG Christensen, E Khan - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Toxic cyanobacteria are a concern worldwide because they can adversely affect humans,
animals, and ecosystems. However, neurotoxins produced by freshwater cyanobacteria are …

[HTML][HTML] The mammalian circadian timing system and the suprachiasmatic nucleus as its pacemaker

MH Hastings, ES Maywood, M Brancaccio - Biology, 2019 - mdpi.com
The past twenty years have witnessed the most remarkable breakthroughs in our
understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms that underpin circadian …

Assessment of microalgal-bacterial granular sludge process for environmentally sustainable municipal wastewater treatment

B Ji, Y Liu - Acs Es&T Water, 2021 - ACS Publications
The conventional municipal wastewater treatment processes are facing increasing
pressures due to their huge energy consumption, significant emissions of greenhouse …

Diurnal metabolic control in cyanobacteria requires perception of second messenger signaling molecule c-di-AMP by the carbon control protein SbtB

KA Selim, M Haffner, M Burkhardt, O Mantovani… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Because of their photosynthesis-dependent lifestyle, cyanobacteria evolved sophisticated
regulatory mechanisms to adapt to oscillating day-night metabolic changes. How they …

[HTML][HTML] Ecosystem functioning across the diel cycle in the Anthropocene

DTC Cox, KJ Gaston - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
Given the marked differences in environmental conditions and active biota between daytime
and nighttime, it is almost inevitable that ecosystem functioning will also differ. However …

Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle

L Cai, H Li, J Deng, R Zhou, Q Zeng - Trends in Microbiology, 2023 - cell.com
The unicellular picocyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photoautotroph
and contributes substantially to global CO 2 fixation. In the vast euphotic zones of the open …

Glycogen metabolism supports photosynthesis start through the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway in cyanobacteria

S Shinde, X Zhang, SP Singapuri, I Kalra, X Liu… - Plant …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria experience drastic changes in their carbon metabolism under daily light/dark
cycles. During the day, the Calvin-Benson cycle fixes CO2 and diverts excess carbon into …

Particulate metabolites and transcripts reflect diel oscillations of microbial activity in the surface ocean

AK Boysen, LT Carlson, BP Durham, RD Groussman… - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Light fuels photosynthesis and organic matter production by primary producers in the sunlit
ocean. The quantity and quality of the organic matter produced influence community …

Phototaxis in a wild isolate of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus

Y Yang, V Lam, M Adomako… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Many cyanobacteria, which use light as an energy source via photosynthesis, have evolved
the ability to guide their movement toward or away from a light source. This process, termed …