Digging deeper: why we need more Proterozoic algal fossils and how to get them

Nitrogen-Fixing Heterocystous Cyanobacteria in the Tonian Period

(2018) Ke Pang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Paleoproterozoic fossil record: Implications for the evolution of the biosphere during Earth's middle-age

(2018) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The “Dirty Ice” of the McMurdo Ice Shelf: Analogues for biological oases during the Cryogenian

(2018) I. Hawes et al.   Geobiology

Neoproterozoic marine carbonates and their paleoceanographic significance

(2018) Ashleigh van Smeerdijk Hood et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Evolutionary Roots of Plant Microbiomes and Biogeochemical Impacts of Nonvascular Autotroph-Microbiome Systems over Deep Time

(2018) Linda E. Graham et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

1.1-billion-year-old porphyrins establish a marine ecosystem dominated by bacterial primary producers

(2018) N. Gueneli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Towards understanding the abundance of non-pollen palynomorphs: A comparison of fossil algae, algal pigments and seda DNA from temperate lake sediments

(2018) Normunds Stivrins et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Triple oxygen isotope evidence for limited mid-Proterozoic primary productivity

(2018) Peter W. Crockford et al.   NATURE

Constraints on Paleoproterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels

(2018) Eric J. Bellefroid et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plastid phylogenomics with broad taxon sampling further elucidates the distinct evolutionary origins and timing of secondary green plastids

(2018) Christopher Jackson et al.   Scientific Reports

Experimental fossilization of mat-forming cyanobacteria in coarse-grained siliciclastic sediments

(2017) S. A. Newman et al.   Geobiology

Persistence of a freshwater surface ocean after a snowball Earth

(2017) Jun Yang et al.   GEOLOGY

A Laurentian record of the earliest fossil eukaryotes

(2017) Zachary R. Adam et al.   GEOLOGY

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

DNA-based methods in paleolimnology: new opportunities for investigating long-term dynamics of lacustrine biodiversity

(2017) Isabelle Domaizon et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Spatiotemporal dynamics of the bacterial microbiota on lacustrine Cladophora glomerata (Chlorophyta)

(2017) Michael J. Braus et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

PYRITIZED CRYOGENIAN CYANOBACTERIAL FOSSILS FROM ARCTIC ALASKA

(2017) KELSEY R. MOORE et al.   PALAIOS

Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae

(2017) Stefan Bengtson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

(2017) Paul F. Hoffman et al.   Science Advances

Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures

(2016) Allen P. Nutman et al.   NATURE

Major transitions in dinoflagellate evolution unveiled by phylotranscriptomics

(2016) Jan Janouškovec et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A bottom-up perspective on ecosystem change in Mesozoic oceans

(2016) Andrew H. Knoll et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Untangling the early diversification of eukaryotes: a phylogenomic study of the evolutionary origins of Centrohelida, Haptophyta and Cryptista

(2016) Fabien Burki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Comprehensive Study of Cyanobacterial Morphological and Ecological Evolutionary Dynamics through Deep Geologic Time

(2016) Josef C. Uyeda et al.   PLoS One

Divergence time estimates and the evolution of major lineages in the florideophyte red algae

(2016) Eun Chan Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

A metagenome for lacustrine Cladophora (Cladophorales) reveals remarkable diversity of eukaryotic epibionts and genes relevant to materials cycling

(2015) Linda E. Graham et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Palaeoecology of a billion-year-old non-marine cyanobacterium from the Torridon Group and Nonesuch Formation

(2015) Paul K. Strother et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Enhanced cellular preservation by clay minerals in 1 billion-year-old lakes

(2014) David Wacey et al.   Scientific Reports

Resistance of Filamentous Chlorophycean, Ulvophycean, and Xanthophycean Algae to Acetolysis: Testing Proterozoic and Paleozoic Microfossil Attributions

(2013) Linda E. Graham et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

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

(2013) Carrine E. Blank   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

LacustrineNostoc(Nostocales) and associated microbiome generate a new type of modern clotted microbialite

(2013) Linda E. Graham et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Mesoproterozoic biogenic thrombolites from the North China platform

(2012) Dongjie Tang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

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