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

Biogeochemical effects of atmospheric oxygen concentration, phosphorus weathering, and sea-level stand on oceanic redox chemistry: Implications for greenhouse climates

(2013) Kazumi Ozaki et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Stability of the nitrogen cycle during development of sulfidic water in the redox-stratified late Paleoproterozoic Ocean

(2013) Linda V. Godfrey et al.   GEOLOGY

Jelly biomass sinking speed reveals a fast carbon export mechanism

(2013) Mario Lebrato et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Benefit of pulsation in soft corals

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

Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

(2013) C. T. Reinhard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

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

Nitrogen cycle feedbacks as a control on euxinia in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

(2013) R.A. Boyle et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Ocean oxygenation in the wake of the Marinoan glaciation

(2012) Swapan K. Sahoo et al.   NATURE

Estimates of Particulate Organic Carbon Flowing from the Pelagic Environment to the Benthos through Sponge Assemblages

(2012) Alejandra Perea-Blázquez et al.   PLoS One

The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity

(2011) Andrew H. Knoll   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Molybdenum isotope constraints on the extent of late Paleoproterozoic ocean euxinia

(2011) Brian Kendall et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Molybdenum evidence for expansive sulfidic water masses in ~750Ma oceans

(2011) Tais W. Dahl et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

(2011) Lawrence M. Och et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ferruginous Conditions: A Dominant Feature of the Ocean through Earth's History

(2011) S. W. Poulton et al.   Elements

Ecological drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa

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

Phosphate biomineralization in mid-Neoproterozoic protists

(2011) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   GEOLOGY

Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes

(2011) Paul K. Strother et al.   NATURE

An early Ediacaran assemblage of macroscopic and morphologically differentiated eukaryotes

(2011) Xunlai Yuan et al.   NATURE

Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

(2011) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   NATURE

Timing of Neoproterozoic glaciations linked to transport-limited global weathering

(2011) Benjamin Mills et al.   Nature Geoscience

Enigmatic origin of the largest-known carbon isotope excursion in Earth's history

(2011) John P. Grotzinger et al.   Nature Geoscience

The DOUNCE event at the top of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China: Broad stratigraphic occurrence and non-diagenetic origin

(2011) Miao Lu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Biologically induced initiation of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth events

(2011) E. Tziperman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks

(2011) L. W. Parfrey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Towards a quantitative understanding of the late Neoproterozoic carbon cycle

(2011) C. J. Bjerrum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

A burial diagenesis origin for the Ediacaran Shuram–Wonoka carbon isotope anomaly

(2010) Louis A. Derry   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

An emerging picture of Neoproterozoic ocean chemistry: Insights from the Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, USA

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

First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland

(2010) Alexander G. Liu et al.   GEOLOGY

Impact of different benthic animals on phosphorus dynamics across the sediment-water interface

(2010) Lei Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Enhanced pore-water nutrient fluxes by the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea sp. in a Red Sea coral reef

(2010) C Jantzen et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

(2010) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   NATURE

Possible animal-body fossils in pre-Marinoan limestones from South Australia

(2010) Adam C. Maloof et al.   Nature Geoscience

Pervasive oxygenation along late Archaean ocean margins

(2010) Brian Kendall et al.   Nature Geoscience

Spatial variability in oceanic redox structure 1.8 billion years ago

(2010) Simon W. Poulton et al.   Nature Geoscience

A Stratified Redox Model for the Ediacaran Ocean

(2010) C. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Calibrating the Cryogenian

(2010) F. A. Macdonald et al.   SCIENCE

Animals and the invention of the Phanerozoic Earth system

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

Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view

(2009) N. J. BUTTERFIELD   Geobiology

Fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric oxygenation recorded by chromium isotopes

(2009) Robert Frei et al.   NATURE

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Biotic turnover driven by eutrophication before the Sturtian low-latitude glaciation

(2009) Robin M. Nagy et al.   Nature Geoscience

Animal evolution, bioturbation, and the sulfate concentration of the oceans

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

Carbon isotope excursions and the oxidant budget of the Ediacaran atmosphere and ocean

(2008) Thomas F. Bristow et al.   GEOLOGY

Major bulk dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal by encrusting coral reef cavity sponges

(2008) JM de Goeij et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean

(2008) C. Scott et al.   NATURE

The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance

(2008) G. E Budd   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the coevolution of Ediacaran oceans and animals

(2008) Y. Shen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ferruginous Conditions Dominated Later Neoproterozoic Deep-Water Chemistry

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