Origin and early evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes in freshwater environments: reinterpreting proterozoic paleobiology and biogeochemical processes in light of trait evolution

Phylogenetic distribution of compatible solute synthesis genes support a freshwater origin for cyanobacteria

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Biosynthesis of the biomarker okenone: χ-ring formation

(2011) K. VOGL et al.   Geobiology

Carotenoid biomarkers as an imperfect reflection of the anoxygenic phototrophic community in meromictic Fayetteville Green Lake

(2011) K. M. MEYER et al.   Geobiology

Millimeter-scale concentration gradients of hydrocarbons in Archean shales: Live-oil escape or fingerprint of contamination?

(2011) Jochen J. Brocks   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Large-Scale Phylogenomic Analyses Indicate a Deep Origin of Primary Plastids within Cyanobacteria

(2011) Alexis Criscuolo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes

(2011) Paul K. Strother et al.   NATURE

Remarkably preserved prokaryote and eukaryote microfossils within 1Ga-old lake phosphates of the Torridon Group, NW Scotland

(2011) Leila Battison et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Diversity in the Archean Biosphere: New Insights from NanoSIMS

(2010) Dorothy Z. Oehler et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Early oxygenation of the terrestrial environment during the Mesoproterozoic

(2010) John Parnell et al.   NATURE

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

(2010) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   NATURE

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

(2010) P. J. Keeling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Streptophyte algae and the origin of embryophytes

(2009) Burkhard Becker et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Phylogenomic Dating—A Method of Constraining the Age of Microbial Taxa That Lack a Conventional Fossil Record

(2009) Carrine E. Blank   ASTROBIOLOGY

Not so old Archaea - the antiquity of biogeochemical processes in the archaeal domain of life

(2009) CARRINE E. BLANK   Geobiology

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

Characterization of C‐isotope variability in the Delhi Supergroup, northwestern India and the Mesoproterozoic ocean

(2009) Anil Maheshwari et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Micro- and nano-scale ultrastructure of cell walls in Cryogenian microfossils: revealing their biological affinity

(2009) MAŁGORZATA MOCZYDŁOWSKA et al.   LETHAIA

Signal Conflicts in the Phylogeny of the Primary Photosynthetic Eukaryotes

(2009) P. Deschamps et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

TAPHONOMY OF EDIACARAN ACRITARCHS FROM AUSTRALIA: SIGNIFICANCE FOR TAXONOMY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY

(2009) K. GREY et al.   PALAIOS

Tappania-bearing association of the Siberian platform: Biodiversity, stratigraphic position and geochronological constraints

(2009) Konstantin Nagovitsin   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

Origin and Radiation of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants

(2009) P. Steemans et al.   SCIENCE

A Late Archean Sulfidic Sea Stimulated by Early Oxidative Weathering of the Continents

(2009) C. T. Reinhard et al.   SCIENCE

The evolution of haploidy and diploidy

(2008) Sarah P. Otto et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Assessing biomarker syngeneity using branched alkanes with quaternary carbon (BAQCs) and other plastic contaminants

(2008) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Sulfur isotope biogeochemistry of the Proterozoic McArthur Basin

(2008) David T. Johnston et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Predation and eukaryote cell origins: A coevolutionary perspective

(2008) T. Cavalier-Smith   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

The Biosynthetic Pathway for Synechoxanthin, an Aromatic Carotenoid Synthesized by the Euryhaline, Unicellular Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC 7002

(2008) J. E. Graham et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Megaphylogeny, Cell Body Plans, Adaptive Zones: Causes and Timing of Eukaryote Basal Radiations

(2008) THOMAS CAVALIER-SMITH   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

DEEP DIVISION IN THE CHLOROPHYCEAE (CHLOROPHYTA) REVEALED BY CHLOROPLAST PHYLOGENOMIC ANALYSES

(2008) Monique Turmel et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

A HYPOTHESIS FOR PLASTID EVOLUTION IN CHROMALVEOLATES1

(2008) M. Virginia Sanchez-Puerta et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

A multi-locus time-calibrated phylogeny of the siphonous green algae

(2008) Heroen Verbruggen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

(2008) Birger Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean

(2008) C. Scott et al.   NATURE

Energy metabolism among eukaryotic anaerobes in light of Proterozoic ocean chemistry

(2008) M. Mentel et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The origin of plastids

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

New morphological observations for Paleoproterozoic acritarchs from the Chuanlinggou Formation, North China

(2008) Y PENG et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation

(2008) K. A. McFadden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome evolution in cyanobacteria: The stable core and the variable shell

(2008) T. Shi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wall ultrastructure in some dispersed megaspores and seed-megaspores from the Middle Devonian of northern Poland

(2008) E. Turnau et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Ultrastructure, morphology, and topology of Cambrian palynomorphs from the Lone Rock Formation, Wisconsin, USA

(2008) Wilson A. Taylor et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Ferruginous Conditions Dominated Later Neoproterozoic Deep-Water Chemistry

(2008) D. E. Canfield et al.   SCIENCE

The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles

(2008) P. G. Falkowski et al.   SCIENCE

The diversity of the Carboniferous phytoplankton

(2007) G.L. Mullins et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY