Cyanobacteria and biogeochemical cycles through Earth history

Carbon isotope evidence for the global physiology of Proterozoic cyanobacteria

(2021) Sarah J. Hurley et al.   Science Advances

Gloeobacter and the implications of a freshwater origin of Cyanobacteria

(2021) John A. Raven et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

Time-resolved comparative molecular evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis

(2021) Thomas Oliver et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

The impact of marine nutrient abundance on early eukaryotic ecosystems

(2020) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   Geobiology

Mixotrophy in marine picocyanobacteria: use of organic compounds by Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus

(2020) M. C. Muñoz-Marín et al.   ISME Journal

Phosphorus-limited conditions in the early Neoproterozoic ocean maintained low levels of atmospheric oxygen

(2020) Romain Guilbaud et al.   Nature Geoscience

Neoproterozoic origin and multiple transitions to macroscopic growth in green seaweeds

(2020) Andrea Del Cortona et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte

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

A phylogenetically novel cyanobacterium most closely related to Gloeobacter

(2020) Christen L. Grettenberger et al.   ISME Journal

Loss of Filamentous Multicellularity in Cyanobacteria: the Extremophile Gloeocapsopsis sp. Strain UTEX B3054 Retained Multicellular Features at the Genomic and Behavioral Levels

(2020) Catalina Urrejola et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Phylogenetic tree building in the genomic age

(2020) Paschalia Kapli et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Ediacaran reorganization of the marine phosphorus cycle

(2020) Thomas A. Laakso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Great Oxidation Event preceded a Paleoproterozoic “snowball Earth”

(2020) Matthew R. Warke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Signatures of early microbial life from the Archean (4 to 2.5 Ga) eon

(2020) Kevin Lepot   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Cycling phosphorus on the Archean Earth: Part II. Phosphorus limitation on primary production in Archean ecosystems

(2020) Jihua Hao et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Comparative genomics reveals insights into cyanobacterial evolution and habitat adaptation

(2020) Meng-Yun Chen et al.   ISME Journal

The role of environmental factors in the long-term evolution of the marine biological pump

(2020) Mojtaba Fakhraee et al.   Nature Geoscience

Insights Into the Evolution of Picocyanobacteria and Phycoerythrin Genes (mpeBA and cpeBA)

(2019) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The response of cyanobacteria and phytoplankton abundance to warming, extreme rainfall events and nutrient enrichment

(2019) Jessica Richardson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Timing the Evolutionary Advent of Cyanobacteria and the Later Great Oxidation Event Using Gene Phylogenies of a Sunscreen

(2019) Ferran Garcia-Pichel et al.   mBio

How did the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis influence the temporal and spatial development of the microbial iron cycle on ancient earth?

(2019) Manuel Schad et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Evolution of Photochemical Reaction Centres: More Twists?

(2019) Tanai Cardona et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Anoxygenic photosynthesis and the delayed oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere

(2019) Kazumi Ozaki et al.   Nature Communications

New insights on the Orosirian carbon cycle, early Cyanobacteria, and the assembly of Laurentia from the Paleoproterozoic Belcher Group

(2019) Malcolm S.W. Hodgskiss et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Challenges in evidencing the earliest traces of life

(2019) Emmanuelle J. Javaux   NATURE

On the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and Cyanobacteria

(2019) Patricia Sánchez‐Baracaldo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Genome analysis of the freshwater planktonic Vulcanococcus limneticus sp. nov. reveals horizontal transfer of nitrogenase operon and alternative pathways of nitrogen utilization

(2018) Andrea Di Cesare et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Dating phototrophic microbial lineages with reticulate gene histories

(2018) C. Magnabosco et al.   Geobiology

Cyanobacterial photosynthesis under sulfidic conditions: insights from the isolate Leptolyngbya sp. strain hensonii

(2018) Trinity L Hamilton et al.   ISME Journal

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

Early Archean origin of Photosystem II

(2018) Tanai Cardona et al.   Geobiology

A Mesoarchean shift in uranium isotope systematics

(2018) Xiangli Wang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Primary Productivity was Limited by Electron Donors Prior to the Advent of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

(2018) Lewis M. Ward et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

The export and fate of organic matter in the ocean: New constraints from combining satellite and oceanographic tracer observations

(2017) Tim DeVries et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Biogeochemistry: Food for early animal evolution

(2017) Andrew H. Knoll   NATURE

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

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Metabolic evolution and the self-organization of ecosystems

(2017) Rogier Braakman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria

(2017) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   SCIENCE

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

The timetable of evolution

(2017) Andrew H. Knoll et al.   Science Advances

Biomass recycling and Earth’s early phosphorus cycle

(2017) Michael A. Kipp et al.   Science Advances

Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

(2016) Woodward W. Fischer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Crown group Oxyphotobacteria postdate the rise of oxygen

(2016) P. M. Shih et al.   Geobiology

Cyanobacterial evolution during the Precambrian

(2016) Bettina E. Schirrmeister et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

(2016) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   NATURE

Earth’s oxygen cycle and the evolution of animal life

(2016) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cyanobacterial symbionts diverged in the late Cretaceous towards lineage-specific nitrogen fixation factories in single-celled phytoplankton

(2016) Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo et al.   Nature Communications

A new view of the tree of life

(2016) Laura A. Hug et al.   Nature Microbiology

Anoxygenic Photosynthesis Controls Oxygenic Photosynthesis in a Cyanobacterium from a Sulfidic Spring

(2015) Judith M. Klatt et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Endosymbiosis and Eukaryotic Cell Evolution

(2015) John M. Archibald   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Iron oxides, divalent cations, silica, and the early earth phosphorus crisis

(2015) C. Jones et al.   GEOLOGY

Causes and consequences of mid-Proterozoic anoxia

(2015) Louis A. Derry   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event: evidence from genes and fossils

(2015) Bettina E. Schirrmeister et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Benthic perspective on Earth’s oldest evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis

(2015) Stefan V. Lalonde et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dilution limits dissolved organic carbon utilization in the deep ocean

(2015) J. M. Arrieta et al.   SCIENCE

Origin of marine planktonic cyanobacteria

(2015) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo   Scientific Reports

A Neoproterozoic Transition in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle

(2014) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Physiology and evolution of nitrate acquisition in Prochlorococcus

(2014) Paul M Berube et al.   ISME Journal

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

The Meaning of Stromatolites

(2013) Tanja Bosak et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

(2013) Sean A. Crowe et al.   NATURE

Evolution of multicellularity coincided with increased diversification of cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event

(2013) B. E. Schirrmeister et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Present and future global distributions of the marine Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus

(2013) P. Flombaum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic deletions disrupt nitrogen metabolism pathways of a cyanobacterial diatom symbiont

(2013) Jason A. Hilton et al.   Nature Communications

The human gut and groundwater harbor non-photosynthetic bacteria belonging to a new candidate phylum sibling to Cyanobacteria

(2013) Sara C Di Rienzi et al.   eLife

The evolution of nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria

(2012) Natasha Latysheva et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Distribution of nitrogen fixation and nitrogenase-like sequences amongst microbial genomes

(2012) Patricia C Dos Santos et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Carbon Fractions

(2011) Dennis A. Hansell   Annual Review of Marine Science

A reduced estimate of the strength of the ocean's biological carbon pump

(2011) Stephanie A. Henson et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Nitrogen fixation and transfer in open ocean diatom–cyanobacterial symbioses

(2011) Rachel A Foster et al.   ISME Journal

Biologically induced initiation of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth events

(2011) E. Tziperman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of the ocean's "biological pump"

(2011) A. Ridgwell   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Nitrogen fixation by marine cyanobacteria

(2011) Jonathan P. Zehr   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Autotrophic picoplankton in mesozooplankton guts: evidence of aggregate feeding in the mesopelagic zone and export of small phytoplankton

(2010) SE Wilson et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

(2010) Nianzhi Jiao et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

(2010) P. J. Keeling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Early Evolution of Photosynthesis

(2010) R. E. Blankenship   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The evolutionary path to terminal differentiation and division of labor in cyanobacteria

(2009) Valentina Rossetti et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Anoxygenic photosynthesis modulated Proterozoic oxygen and sustained Earth's middle age

(2009) D. T. Johnston et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Widespread metabolic potential for nitrite and nitrate assimilation among Prochlorococcus ecotypes

(2009) A. C. Martiny et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA