Proterozoic photosynthesis - a critical review

A statistical analysis of the carbon isotope record from the Archean to Phanerozoic and implications for the rise of oxygen

(2015) J. Krissansen-Totton et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Fossil-based comparative analyses reveal ancient marine ancestry erased by extinction in ray-finned fishes

(2015) Ricardo Betancur-R et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Early evolution of large micro-organisms with cytological complexity revealed by microanalyses of 3.4 Ga organic-walled microfossils

(2015) K. Sugitani et al.   Geobiology

Assessing the distribution of sedimentary C40carotenoids through time

(2015) K. L. French et al.   Geobiology

Selenium isotopes support free O2 in the latest Archean

(2015) Eva E. Stüeken et al.   GEOLOGY

Iron oxides, divalent cations, silica, and the early earth phosphorus crisis

(2015) C. Jones et al.   GEOLOGY

Heterotrophic and autotrophic contribution to dinitrogen fixation in the Gulf of Aqaba

(2015) E Rahav et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The terrestrial biota prior to the origin of land plants (embryophytes): a review of the evidence

(2015) Charles H. Wellman et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Sulfur-cycling fossil bacteria from the 1.8-Ga Duck Creek Formation provide promising evidence of evolution's null hypothesis

(2015) J. William Schopf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Eukaryogenesis, how special really?

(2015) Austin Booth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

(2015) Katherine L. French et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Heterotrophic and autotrophic contribution to dinitrogen fixation in the Gulf of Aqaba

(2015) E Rahav et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

A Neoproterozoic Transition in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle

(2014) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Oxygenation of the Archean atmosphere: New paleosol constraints from eastern India

(2014) Joydip Mukhopadhyay et al.   GEOLOGY

Toward an empirical framework for interpreting plastid evolution

(2014) John W. Stiller   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Synechococcus: 3 billion years of global dominance

(2014) Petr Dvořák et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

(2014) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

Co-evolution of eukaryotes and ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic era

(2014) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Early evolution of the Eukaryota

(2014) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PALAEONTOLOGY

Complete genome of a nonphotosynthetic cyanobacterium in a diatom reveals recent adaptations to an intracellular lifestyle

(2014) T. Nakayama et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional type 2 photosynthetic reaction centers found in the rare bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes

(2014) Y. Zeng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The plastid ancestor originated among one of the major cyanobacterial lineages

(2014) Jesús A. G. Ochoa de Alda et al.   Nature Communications

Extant diversity of bryophytes emerged from successive post-Mesozoic diversification bursts

(2014) B. Laenen et al.   Nature Communications

The Number, Speed, and Impact of Plastid Endosymbioses in Eukaryotic Evolution

(2013) Patrick J. Keeling   Annual Review of Plant Biology

A test of the nitrogen-limitation hypothesis for retarded eukaryote radiation: Nitrogen isotopes across a Mesoproterozoic basinal profile

(2013) Eva E. Stüeken   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms: Causes, Consequences, and Controls

(2013) Hans W. Paerl et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

(2013) Sean A. Crowe et al.   NATURE

The Primitive Thylakoid-Less Cyanobacterium Gloeobacter Is a Common Rock-Dwelling Organism

(2013) Jan Mareš et al.   PLoS One

Improving the coverage of the cyanobacterial phylum using diversity-driven genome sequencing

(2013) P. M. Shih et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of multicellularity coincided with increased diversification of cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event

(2013) B. E. Schirrmeister et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Primary endosymbiosis events date to the later Proterozoic with cross-calibrated phylogenetic dating of duplicated ATPase proteins

(2013) P. M. Shih et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic deletions disrupt nitrogen metabolism pathways of a cyanobacterial diatom symbiont

(2013) Jason A. Hilton et al.   Nature Communications

Distribution of nitrogen fixation and nitrogenase-like sequences amongst microbial genomes

(2012) Patricia C Dos Santos et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Algal Biogeography: Metagenomics Shows Distribution of a Picoplanktonic Pelagophyte

(2012) John A. Raven   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genomes of Stigonematalean Cyanobacteria (Subsection V) and the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis from Prokaryotes to Plastids

(2012) Tal Dagan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Lipid taphonomy in the Proterozoic and the effect of microbial mats on biomarker preservation

(2012) M. M. Pawlowska et al.   GEOLOGY

What makes a chloroplast? Reconstructing the establishment of photosynthetic symbioses

(2012) R. G. Dorrell et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Trafficking of protein into the recently established photosynthetic organelles of Paulinella chromatophora

(2012) E. C. M. Nowack et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolutionary history of haptophytes and cryptophytes: phylogenomic evidence for separate origins

(2012) F. Burki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Unicellular Cyanobacterium Symbiotic with a Single-Celled Eukaryotic Alga

(2012) A. W. Thompson et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of Photosynthesis

(2011) Martin F. Hohmann-Marriott et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Energetics and genetics across the prokaryote-eukaryote divide

(2011) Nick Lane   Biology Direct

The origin of multicellularity in cyanobacteria

(2011) Bettina E Schirrmeister et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Complete genome of Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum, a chlorophyll-based photoheterotroph belonging to the phylum Acidobacteria

(2011) Amaya M. Garcia Costas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Do Red and Green Make Brown?: Perspectives on Plastid Acquisitions within Chromalveolates

(2011) Richard G. Dorrell et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Ecological drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa

(2011) Douglas H. Erwin et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Putative Cryogenian ciliates from Mongolia

(2011) T. Bosak et al.   GEOLOGY

Heterotrophic organisms dominate nitrogen fixation in the South Pacific Gyre

(2011) Hannah Halm et al.   ISME Journal

Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes

(2011) Paul K. Strother et al.   NATURE

Recent Synchronous Radiation of a Living Fossil

(2011) N. S. Nagalingum et al.   SCIENCE

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Nitrogen Cycle of the Open Ocean: From Genes to Ecosystems

(2010) Jonathan P. Zehr et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Signature proteins for the major clades of Cyanobacteria

(2010) Radhey S Gupta et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Regime shifts in shallow lakes: the importance of seasonal fish migration

(2010) Christer Brönmark et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Phylogenomic Evidence for Separate Acquisition of Plastids in Cryptophytes, Haptophytes, and Stramenopiles

(2010) D. Baurain et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Molecular Genetic Timescale for the Diversification of Autotrophic Stramenopiles (Ochrophyta): Substantive Underestimation of Putative Fossil Ages

(2010) Joseph W. Brown et al.   PLoS One

Plectolyngbya hodgsonii: a novel filamentous cyanobacterium from Antarctic lakes

(2010) A. Taton et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Animals and the invention of the Phanerozoic Earth system

(2010) Nicholas J. Butterfield   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Inferring clocks when lacking rocks: the variable rates of molecular evolution in bacteria

(2009) Chih-Horng Kuo et al.   Biology Direct

Iron-oxidizing microbial ecosystems thrived in late Paleoproterozoic redox-stratified oceans

(2009) Noah Planavsky et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Timing of morphological and ecological innovations in the cyanobacteria – a key to understanding the rise in atmospheric oxygen

(2009) C. E. BLANK et al.   Geobiology

The Evolution of a Capacity to Build Supra-Cellular Ropes Enabled Filamentous Cyanobacteria to Colonize Highly Erodible Substrates

(2009) Ferran Garcia-Pichel et al.   PLoS One

Taxonomy and affinity of Early Mesoproterozoic megascopic helically coiled and related fossils from the Rohtas Formation, the Vindhyan Supergroup, India

(2009) Mukund Sharma et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Modes of pre-Ediacaran multicellularity

(2009) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Anoxygenic photosynthesis modulated Proterozoic oxygen and sustained Earth's middle age

(2009) D. T. Johnston et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trait-Based Community Ecology of Phytoplankton

(2008) Elena Litchman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

REGIME SHIFT IN A COASTAL MARINE ECOSYSTEM

(2008) Jens Kjerulf Petersen et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Plastid-Derived Genes in the Nonphotosynthetic Alveolate Oxyrrhis marina

(2008) C. H. Slamovits et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The origin of plastids

(2008) C.J Howe et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

When did oxygenic photosynthesis evolve?

(2008) R. Buick   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Okenane, a biomarker for purple sulfur bacteria (Chromatiaceae), and other new carotenoid derivatives from the 1640Ma Barney Creek Formation

(2007) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Morphological variability and method of opening of the Devonian acritarch Navifusa bacilla ()

(2007) Oldřich Fatka et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY