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Article: Bacterial circadian rhythms

While the article references reliable sources from peer-reviewed journals, there are multiple instances of uncited facts. For example, the lead lists three criteria required of circadian rhythms with no citations. Upon further inspection, the creator of the article was the original source of these ideas and had been published in a reliable journal. Thus, some ideas in the article may be the creator’s own, but it would have been helpful to cite their personal work or other reliable sources with similar findings. The headings of the article can be edited to summarize the section simply and not in the structure of an essay question. “History: are prokaryotes capable of circadian rhythmicity?” can be shortened to “History” and “Visualizing the clockwork’s ‘gears’: structural biology of clock proteins” can be replaced by “Structure of clock proteins” for clarity. It is also not appropriate to include personal opinions, so sentences like “[w]hile intuitive, the conclusion was flawed” should be avoided. Similarly, the language should be as neutral as possible; for example, phrases like “groundbreaking” and “the most spectacular” are unsuitable. The article was created in 2009 and recent research has provided new insight into bacterial circadian rhythms. Cyanobacteria have been found to regulate their circadian rhythms primarily in response to changes in metabolic activity detected by KaiABC proteins. Non-cyanobacterial prokaryotes have been shown to operate circadian rhythms and human gut microbiota respond to melatonin – a regulator of circadian rhythms. These are updates that should be included to further develop the article. Swimminganddogs (talk) 08:54, 17 September 2017 (UTC)