One-billion-year-old epibionts highlight symbiotic ecological interactions in early eukaryote evolution

Reconstructing Tonian seawater 87Sr/86Sr using calcite microspar

(2020) Ying Zhou et al.   GEOLOGY

A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte

(2020) Qing Tang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois

(2020) Victoria E. McCoy et al.   Geobiology

An assemblage of macroscopic and diversified carbonaceous compression fossils from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang Formation in western Shandong, North China

(2020) Guangjin Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

An encrusting kleptoparasite-host interaction from the early Cambrian

(2020) Zhifei Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Raman spectroscopy and structural heterogeneity of carbonaceous material in Proterozoic organic-walled microfossils in the North China Craton

(2020) Ke Pang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada

(2019) Corentin C. Loron et al.   NATURE

New geochronologic and paleomagnetic results from early Neoproterozoic mafic sills and late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic successions in the eastern North China Craton, and implications for the reconstruction of Rodinia

(2019) Hanqing Zhao et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Tongjiazhuang Formation of the Tumen Group in western Shandong, North China Craton and their biostratigraphic significance

(2019) Guangjin Li et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Provenance analysis of the late Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic Xuhuai Basin in the southeast North China Craton: Implications for paleogeographic reconstruction

(2019) Fengbo Sun et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Nitrogen-Fixing Heterocystous Cyanobacteria in the Tonian Period

(2018) Ke Pang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Fossilization transforms vertebrate hard tissue proteins into N-heterocyclic polymers

(2018) Jasmina Wiemann et al.   Nature Communications

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Diversity of organic-walled microfossils from the early Mesoproterozoic Ruyang Group, North China Craton – A window into the early eukaryote evolution

(2017) Heda Agić et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Global species richness record and biostratigraphic potential of early to middle Neoproterozoic eukaryote fossils

(2017) Leigh Anne Riedman et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited low-salinity habitats

(2017) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cryogenian evolution of stigmasteroid biosynthesis

(2017) Yosuke Hoshino et al.   Science Advances

Controlled hydroxyapatite biomineralization in an ~810 million-year-old unicellular eukaryote

(2017) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   Science Advances

Host-specific infestation in early Cambrian worms

(2017) Peiyun Cong et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Electron microscopy reveals evidence for simple multicellularity in the Proterozoic fossilChuaria

(2016) Qing Tang et al.   GEOLOGY

Tiny vampires in ancient seas: evidence for predation via perforation in fossils from the 780–740 million-year-old Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, USA

(2016) Susannah M. Porter   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Endosymbiosis and Eukaryotic Cell Evolution

(2015) John M. Archibald   CURRENT BIOLOGY

RESOLVING THREE-DIMENSIONAL AND SUBSURFICIAL FEATURES OF CARBONACEOUS COMPRESSIONS AND SHELLY FOSSILS USING BACKSCATTERED ELECTRON SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (BSE-SEM)

(2015) A.D. MUSCENTE et al.   PALAIOS

The Proterozoic Record of Eukaryotes

(2015) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Changing the picture of Earth's earliest fossils (3.5–1.9 Ga) with new approaches and new discoveries

(2015) Martin D. Brasier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Failed predation, commensalism and parasitism on lower Cambrian linguliformean brachiopods

(2014) John S. Peel   ALCHERINGA

Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Eukaryotic Evolution

(2014) A. H. Knoll   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Brachiopods hitching a ride: an early case of commensalism in the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale

(2014) Timothy P. Topper et al.   Scientific Reports

Organic-walled microfossils from the early Neoproterozoic Liulaobei Formation in the Huainan region of North China and their biostratigraphic significance

(2013) Qing Tang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Nanoscale analysis of pyritized microfossils reveals differential heterotrophic consumption in the  1.9-Ga Gunflint chert

(2013) D. Wacey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mesoproterozoic magmatic events in the eastern North China Craton and their tectonic implications: Geochronological evidence from detrital zircons in the Shandong Peninsula and North Korea

(2012) Bo Hu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The genus Cladophora (Chlorophyta) in the littoral of Bahia, Brazil

(2012) Aigara Miranda Alves et al.   NOVA HEDWIGIA

Repeatedly Evolved Host-Specific Ectosymbioses between Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria and Amphipods Living in a Cave Ecosystem

(2012) Jan Bauermeister et al.   PLoS One

Neoproterozoic (~900Ma) Sariwon sills in North Korea: Geochronology, geochemistry and implications for the evolution of the south-eastern margin of the North China Craton

(2011) Peng Peng et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

On the affinity of Chuaria–Tawuia complex: A multidisciplinary study

(2009) Mukund Sharma et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Epibionts on the lingulate brachiopod Diandongia from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, South China

(2009) Z. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Restudy of the worm-like carbonaceous compression fossils Protoarenicola, Pararenicola, and Sinosabellidites from early Neoproterozoic successions in North China

(2007) Lin Dong et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY