Fossils and astrobiology: new protocols for cell evolution in deep time

Multiple Generations of Carbon in the Apex Chert and Implications for Preservation of Microfossils

(2012) Alison Olcott Marshall et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Origin of first cells at terrestrial, anoxic geothermal fields

(2012) A. Y. Mulkidjanian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pumice as a Remarkable Substrate for the Origin of Life

(2011) Martin D. Brasier et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes

(2011) Paul K. Strother et al.   NATURE

Haematite pseudomicrofossils present in the 3.5-billion-year-old Apex Chert

(2011) Craig P. Marshall et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microfossils of sulphur-metabolizing cells in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia

(2011) David Wacey et al.   Nature Geoscience

Diverse microbially induced sedimentary structures from 1Ga lakes of the Diabaig Formation, Torridon Group, northwest Scotland

(2011) Richard H.T. Callow et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Diversity in the Archean Biosphere: New Insights from NanoSIMS

(2010) Dorothy Z. Oehler et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Earliest microbially mediated pyrite oxidation in ~3.4 billion-year-old sediments

(2010) David Wacey et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Searching for travertines, calcretes and speleothems in deep time: Processes, appearances, predictions and the impact of plants

(2010) A.T. Brasier   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Two coexisting sulfur metabolisms in a ca. 3400 Ma sandstone

(2010) David Wacey et al.   GEOLOGY

Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits

(2010) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   NATURE

Precambrian microbe-like pseudofossils: A promising solution to the problem

(2010) J. William Schopf et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Microbial Transformations of Minerals and Metals: Recent Advances in Geomicrobiology Derived from Synchrotron-Based X-Ray Spectroscopy and X-Ray Microscopy

(2009) Alexis Templeton et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Geobiological investigations using secondary ion mass spectrometry: microanalysis of extant and paleo-microbial processes

(2009) V. J. ORPHAN et al.   Geobiology

Hydrothermal alteration and microfossil artefacts of the 3,465-million-year-old Apex chert

(2009) Daniele L. Pinti et al.   Nature Geoscience

Pseudofossils in relict methane seep carbonates resemble endemic microbial consortia

(2009) Jake V. Bailey et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman imagery of ancient microscopic fossils

(2009) J. William Schopf et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

NanoSIMS: Insights to biogenicity and syngeneity of Archaean carbonaceous structures

(2009) Dorothy Z. Oehler et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Growth of synthetic stromatolites and wrinkle structures in the absence of microbes – implications for the early fossil record

(2008) N. MCLOUGHLIN et al.   Geobiology

Use of NanoSIMS in the search for early life on Earth: ambient inclusion trails in a c. 3400 Ma sandstone

(2008) DAVID WACEY et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Microbially influenced formation of 2,724-million-year-old stromatolites

(2008) Kevin Lepot et al.   Nature Geoscience

In situ imaging of organic sulfur in 700–800 My-old Neoproterozoic microfossils using X-ray spectromicroscopy at the S K-edge

(2007) Laurence Lemelle et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY