Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals

Divergence times in demosponges (Porifera): first insights from new mitogenomes and the inclusion of fossils in a birth-death clock model

(2018) Astrid Schuster et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Synthesis of 26-methyl cholestane and identification of cryostanes in mid-Neoproterozoic sediments

(2018) Pierre Adam et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Ediacara biota flourished in oligotrophic and bacterially dominated marine environments across Baltica

(2018) Kelden Pehr et al.   Nature Communications

Early sponge evolution: A review and phylogenetic framework

(2018) Joseph P. Botting et al.   Palaeoworld

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

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Ctenophore relationships and their placement as the sister group to all other animals

(2017) Nathan V. Whelan et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data

(2017) Martin Dohrmann et al.   Scientific Reports

Lipid biomarker stratigraphic records through the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary: Comparison of high- and low-latitude epicontinental marine settings

(2016) Emily E. Haddad et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Sterol and genomic analyses validate the sponge biomarker hypothesis

(2016) David A. Gold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Early sponges and toxic protists: possible sources of cryostane, an age diagnostic biomarker antedating Sturtian Snowball Earth

(2015) J. J. Brocks et al.   Geobiology

A Cryogenian chronology: Two long-lasting synchronous Neoproterozoic glaciations

(2015) Alan D. Rooney et al.   GEOLOGY

Scarcity of the C30 sterane biomarker, 24-n-propylcholestane, in Lower Paleozoic marine paleoenvironments

(2015) Megan Rohrssen et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

The molecular record of Cryogenian sponges - a response to Antcliffe (2013)

(2015) Gordon D. Love et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Assessing the veracity of Precambrian ‘sponge’ fossils using in situ nanoscale analytical techniques

(2015) A.D. Muscente et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Identification of 24-n-propylidenecholesterol in a member of the Foraminifera

(2013) Jonathan Grabenstatter et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Lipid biomarkers record fundamental changes in the microbial community structure of tropical seas during the Late Ordovician Hirnantian glaciation

(2012) Megan Rohrssen et al.   GEOLOGY

Hydrocarbon biomarkers of Neoproterozoic to Lower Cambrian oils from eastern Siberia

(2011) Amy E. Kelly et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Single-cell genomics reveals the lifestyle of Poribacteria, a candidate phylum symbiotically associated with marine sponges

(2010) Alexander Siegl et al.   ISME Journal

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

The sterols of calcareous sponges (Calcarea, Porifera)

(2008) Andrea Hagemann et al.   CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF LIPIDS

Sterols in red and green algae: quantification, phylogeny, and relevance for the interpretation of geologic steranes

(2008) R. B. KODNER et al.   Geobiology

Origin of petroleum in the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian South Oman Salt Basin

(2008) E. Grosjean et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY