Progress and perspective on frontiers of geobiology

Assessing the Use of Archaeal Lipids as Marine Environmental Proxies

(2013) Ann Pearson et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Concordant monsoon-driven postglacial hydrological changes in peat and stalagmite records and their impacts on prehistoric cultures in central China

(2013) Shucheng Xie et al.   GEOLOGY

Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter

(2013) Christian Rinke et al.   NATURE

High rates of microbial carbon turnover in sediments in the deepest oceanic trench on Earth

(2013) Ronnie N. Glud et al.   Nature Geoscience

Evidence for Microbial Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Deeply Buried Ridge Flank Basalt

(2013) M. A. Lever et al.   SCIENCE

Discovering the roles of subsurface microorganisms: Progress and future of deep biosphere investigation

(2012) FengPing Wang et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Geomicrobial functional groups: A window on the interaction between life and environments

(2012) ShuCheng Xie et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Two episodes of environmental change at the Permian–Triassic boundary of the GSSP section Meishan

(2012) Hongfu Yin et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Microbial lipid records of highly alkaline deposits and enhanced aridity associated with significant uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in the Late Miocene

(2012) S. Xie et al.   GEOLOGY

The timing and pattern of biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction

(2012) Zhong-Qiang Chen et al.   Nature Geoscience

The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review

(2012) Stefan Schouten et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Microbial life at -13  C in the brine of an ice-sealed Antarctic lake

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

Lethally Hot Temperatures During the Early Triassic Greenhouse

(2012) Y. Sun et al.   SCIENCE

Latitudinal variations of CPI values of long-chain n-alkanes in surface soils: Evidence for CPI as a proxy of aridity

(2012) Pan Luo et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Growth of non-phototrophic microorganisms using solar energy through mineral photocatalysis

(2012) Anhuai Lu et al.   Nature Communications

Phosphogenesis in the 2460 and 2728 million-year-old banded iron formations as evidence for biological cycling of phosphate in the early biosphere

(2012) Yi-Liang Li et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Effect of microbes on karstification in karst ecosystems

(2011) Bin Lian et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers and paleoenvironmental reconstruction in Zoigê peat sediments during the last 150 years

(2011) HaoDa Zhou et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Climatic and environmental implications from n-alkanes in glacially eroded lake sediments in Tibetan Plateau: An example from Ximen Co

(2011) Yang Pu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Microbial response to limited nutrients in shallow water immediately after the end-Permian mass extinction

(2011) C. JIA et al.   Geobiology

Mineral ecophysiological data provide growing evidence for microbial activity in banded-iron formations

(2011) Yi-Liang Li et al.   GEOLOGY

Enhanced nitrogen fixation in the immediate aftermath of the latest Permian marine mass extinction

(2011) Genming Luo et al.   GEOLOGY

Recovery tempo and pattern of marine ecosystems after the end-Permian mass extinction

(2011) Haijun Song et al.   GEOLOGY

Fungal communities on speleothem surfaces in Kartchner Caverns, Arizona, USA

(2011) Michael Vaughan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPELEOLOGY

Young poorly crystalline graphite in the >3.8-Gyr-old Nuvvuagittuq banded iron formation

(2011) D. Papineau et al.   Nature Geoscience

Under the sea: microbial life in volcanic oceanic crust

(2011) Katrina J. Edwards et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction

(2011) S.-z. Shen et al.   SCIENCE

Geobiological approach to evaluating marine carbonate source rocks of hydrocarbon

(2011) HongFu Yin et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Multiple S-isotopic evidence for episodic shoaling of anoxic water during Late Permian mass extinction

(2011) Yanan Shen et al.   Nature Communications

Nitrogen Cycle of the Open Ocean: From Genes to Ecosystems

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

RNA-Based Investigation of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea in Hot Springs of Yunnan Province, China

(2010) H. Jiang et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Abundance and Diversity of Archaeal Ammonia Oxidizers in a Coastal Groundwater System

(2010) D. R. Rogers et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Isotopic evidence for an anomalously low oceanic sulfate concentration following end-Permian mass extinction

(2010) Genming Luo et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mineral Evolution: Mineralogy in the Fourth Dimension

(2010) R. M. Hazen et al.   Elements

Reduction of structural Fe(III) in nontronite by methanogen Methanosarcina barkeri

(2010) Deng Liu et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Cyanobacterial blooms tied to volcanism during the 5 m.y. Permo-Triassic biotic crisis

(2010) Shucheng Xie et al.   GEOLOGY

Comparative metagenomics of microbial communities inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimneys with contrasting chemistries

(2010) Wei Xie et al.   ISME Journal

Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean

(2010) Benjamin C. Gill et al.   NATURE

Microbial production of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter: long-term carbon storage in the global ocean

(2010) Nianzhi Jiao et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Path from C3 to C4 Photosynthesis

(2010) U. Gowik et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Diversity and ecology of psychrophilic microorganisms

(2010) Rosa Margesin et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

A Stratified Redox Model for the Ediacaran Ocean

(2010) C. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Calibrating the Cryogenian

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

Stable isotopes of modern herbivore tooth enamel in the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for paleoelevation reconstructions

(2009) Qiang Xu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Biogeochemical evidence for euxinic oceans and ecological disturbance presaging the end-Permian mass extinction event

(2009) Changqun Cao et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Comparison of the microbial diversity at different depths of the GISP2 Greenland ice core in relationship to deposition climates

(2009) Vanya Miteva et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diverse archaeal community of a bat guano pile in Domica Cave (Slovak Karst, Slovakia)

(2009) A. Chroňáková et al.   FOLIA MICROBIOLOGICA

High microbial activity on glaciers: importance to the global carbon cycle

(2009) ALEXANDRE M. ANESIO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Life without light: microbial diversity and evidence of sulfur- and ammonium-based chemolithotrophy in Movile Cave

(2009) Yin Chen et al.   ISME Journal

Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event

(2009) Kurt O. Konhauser et al.   NATURE

The oldest articulated osteichthyan reveals mosaic gnathostome characters

(2009) Min Zhu et al.   NATURE

Reconstruction of water column anoxia in the equatorial Atlantic during the Cenomanian–Turonian oceanic anoxic event using biomarker and trace metal proxies

(2009) Elisabeth C. van Bentum et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Origin and Radiation of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants

(2009) P. Steemans et al.   SCIENCE

A Contemporary Microbially Maintained Subglacial Ferrous "Ocean"

(2009) J. A. Mikucki et al.   SCIENCE

The timing and extent of the eruption of the Siberian Traps large igneous province: Implications for the end-Permian environmental crisis

(2008) Marc K. Reichow et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Cultivation of a thermophilic ammonia oxidizing archaeon synthesizing crenarchaeol

(2008) José R. de la Torre et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Nitrification in terrestrial hot springs of Iceland and Kamchatka

(2008) Laila J. Reigstad et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Microbial biodiversity in groundwater ecosystems

(2008) C. GRIEBLER et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Carbon isotope evidence for widespread methane seeps in the ca. 635 Ma Doushantuo cap carbonate in south China

(2008) Jiasheng Wang et al.   GEOLOGY

Microbial communities in karst groundwater and their potential use for biomonitoring

(2008) Michiel Pronk et al.   HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL

Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

(2008) Birger Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

Major gradients in putatively nitrifying and non-nitrifying Archaea in the deep North Atlantic

(2008) Hélène Agogué et al.   NATURE

High-resolution metagenomics targets specific functional types in complex microbial communities

(2008) Marina G Kalyuzhnaya et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Alternating Si and Fe deposition caused by temperature fluctuations in Precambrian oceans

(2008) Nicole R. Posth et al.   Nature Geoscience

Black shale deposition in an Upper Ordovician–Silurian permanently stratified, peri-glacial basin, southern Jordan

(2008) Howard A. Armstrong et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Microbial Ecology of Ocean Biogeochemistry: A Community Perspective

(2008) S. L. Strom   SCIENCE

Facies changes and diagenetic processes across the Permian-Triassic boundary event horizon, Great Bank of Guizhou, South China: a controversy of erosion and dissolution

(2008) PIERRE-YVES COLLIN et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Discussion on geobiology, biogeology and geobiofacies

(2008) HongFu Yin et al.   Science in China. Series D, Earth sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences

A comparative study of n-alkane biomarker and pollen records: an example from southern China

(2008) YanHong Zheng et al.   Science Bulletin

Iron isotopes constrain biologic and abiologic processes in banded iron formation genesis

(2007) Clark M. Johnson et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA