Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Sensing Blue Light: From #Bacteria to #Birds https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2023/04/sensing-blue-light-from-bacteria-to-birds.html @STCmicrobeblog
"How #photolyases and #cryptochromes evolved to carry out their different light-dependent functions is unclear. Their capacity to sense blue light is a feature that likely evolved very early in Earth's history. Thus, plant and animal cryptochromes probably evolved from some ancestral photolyases. One of the most fascinating adaptations is, undoubtedly, the involvement of cryptochromes in #bird #navigation."
Sensing Blue Light: From Bacteria to Birds
<p>by Mechas <br /> That many birds migrate over long distances is a well-known fact. But reading the book "World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds" by Scott Weidensaul proved to be a true eye-opener. I also learned a fact that really stuck with me.