#Lunar #Clocks - “The dating tool of #marine organisms”
#GEO highlights Tobias Kaiser’s research at #MPIEvolBio, where 11 #Clunio marinus strains help reveal how lunar #rhythms are encoded in #genes.
#MaxPlanck #Chronobiology #SciComm #EvoBio #Ecology #Biodiversity
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3873148/news...

Excited to share that our former postdoc, PhD student, Master student and intern @juleneumann.bsky.social will give a #TEDx talk on #lunar #rhythms in #marine organisms next week.

I'm very much looking forward to see the video!

#chronobiology #ecology #moon #tides #clunio #crabs

How competition can drive allochronic divergence: a case study in the marine midge, Clunio marinus Synchronizing mating to extrinsic environmental cycles can increase the chance of successful reproduction. However, the resulting temporally-assorted mating may precipitate speciation if coupled with ...

How can larval #competition for space, adult #reproductive #timing and the #tides interact to produce different timing strains, aka #chronotypes, of the marine insect #Clunio?

See our latest preprint with Alec Jacobsen & @gokhalecs.bsky.social

#evolution #ecology #chronobiology #circalunar #clock

Years of work distilled to 1 minute:
Our recent paper with @kokkonut.bsky.social has made it to #youtube !

The AI illustrations do not look anything like real-life #Clunio - but they are captivating.

And the scientific content is accurate and well explained!

Original paper: tinyurl.com/28hxwree

Die Mücke und der Mond Die Meeresmücke Clunio marinus im Rhythmus der Gezeiten

Here is a nice piece on #Clunio #biology and #rhythms by @ulrikegebhardt.bsky.social
- including some of our #research @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social
with @juleneumann.bsky.social and @kokkonut.bsky.social.

(In German only.)

#chronobiology #moon #MarineEcology #Science #SciCom
#taktvoll #Mond #Natur

Temporal niche partitioning: Mechanism of coexistence or competitive exclusion via priority effects? Temporal niche partitioning receives increasing attention as a potential mechanism of coexistence. Here, I highlight recent research on a unique marine midge system that reveals the opposite: differe...

Our work with @kokkonut.bsky.social on #temporal #niches and #coexistence in #Clunio (see tinyurl.com/bderptbr and tinyurl.com/28hxwree) has been featured in a Research Highlight @animalecology.bsky.social:

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#ecology #evolution #chronobiology

In the first study we showed that #coexistence of #Clunio strains which live in the same habitat, but differ in #lunar reproductive #timing is not easily explained.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#MarineLife … and #insects? Yes!

The #marine #midge #Clunio lives for only one low #tide
and its emergence follows the #lunar #cycle!

Read the full thread below.

#addOcean #MarineEcology #Entomology
@gettoknownature.bsky.social @wonderofscience.bsky.social

#Moonstruck #Midges: Introducing Clunio marinus
#Clunio is a midge and a truly #marine #insect. You can find it on the #European #Atlantic #coast in the #intertidal zone. This is the region between the low #tide and high tide, alternating between marine and terrestrial conditions.
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Hello Bsky!

We are the Max Planck Research Group Biological Clocks.

#evolution #evobio #ecology #adaptation #biodiversity #behaviour #genetics #genomics #chronobiology #circadian #circalunar #biologicalclock #moon #tides #marine #molbio #biology #nature #research #science #scicomm #insect #clunio