Searching for sponge origins

Early sponge evolution: A review and phylogenetic framework

(2018) Joseph P. Botting et al.   Palaeoworld

Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals

(2018) J. Alex Zumberge et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Discovery of missing link between demosponges and hexactinellids confirms palaeontological model of sponge evolution

(2017) Joseph P. Botting et al.   Scientific Reports

Exceptional preservation of soft-bodied Ediacara Biota promoted by silica-rich oceans

(2016) Lidya G. Tarhan et al.   GEOLOGY

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

The Cambrian explosion

(2015) Derek E.G. Briggs   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

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

(2015) Gordon D. Love et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The role of experiments in investigating the taphonomy of exceptional preservation

(2015) Derek E. G. Briggs et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze

(2014) Jonathan B. Antcliffe et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Biogeochemistry: Early animals out in the cold

(2009) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE