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They found evidence that cicadas will track time through fluctuations of light as days go by. They guess that light patterns cause the plant xylem (which the cicadas feed on while 17 years underground) to undergo amino acid concentration change, in terms of quantity and quality, which the cicadas track and react to.
Is this right? Are there any follow up studies to show the actual molecular basis in how the cicadas track time through plant xylem, or otherwise?
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