Cyanobacterial evolution during the Precambrian

A redox-stratified ocean 3.2 billion years ago

(2015) Aaron M. Satkoski et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

(2015) C. Jones et al.   GEOLOGY

Modulation of oxygen production in Archaean oceans by episodes of Fe(II) toxicity

(2015) Elizabeth D. Swanner et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2015) Bettina E. Schirrmeister et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Morphological adaptations of 3.22 Ga-old tufted microbial mats to Archean coastal habitats (Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa)

(2015) Martin Homann et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

(2015) Katherine L. French et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

A Neoproterozoic Transition in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle

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

Comparative genomics reveals surprising divergence of two closely related strains of uncultivated UCYN-A cyanobacteria

(2014) Deniz Bombar et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

(2014) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures Recording an Ancient Ecosystem in the ca. 3.48 Billion-Year-Old Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia

(2013) Nora Noffke et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Carbon isotopic analyses of ca. 3.0 Ga microstructures imply planktonic autotrophs inhabited Earth’s early oceans

(2013) C.H. House et al.   GEOLOGY

Diverse capacity for 2-methylhopanoid production correlates with a specific ecological niche

(2013) Jessica N Ricci et al.   ISME Journal

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

(2013) Sean A. Crowe et al.   NATURE

Improving the coverage of the cyanobacterial phylum using diversity-driven genome sequencing

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

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

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

Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

(2013) C. T. Reinhard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earliest evidence for life on Earth: an Australian perspective

(2012) D Wacey   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Gene copy number variation and its significance in cyanobacterial phylogeny

(2012) Bettina E Schirrmeister et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Chlorophyll Biosynthesis Gene Evolution Indicates Photosystem Gene Duplication, Not Photosystem Merger, at the Origin of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

(2012) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Preservation and detection of microstructural and taxonomic correlations in the carbon isotopic compositions of individual Precambrian microfossils

(2012) Kenneth H. Williford et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Biogenicity of Earth's earliest fossils: A resolution of the controversy

(2012) J. William Schopf et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Ocean oxygenation in the wake of the Marinoan glaciation

(2012) Swapan K. Sahoo et al.   NATURE

Isotopic composition of organic and inorganic carbon from the Mesoproterozoic Jixian Group, North China: Implications for biological and oceanic evolution

(2012) Hua Guo et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Microfossil assemblage from the 3400Ma Strelley Pool Formation in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Results form a new locality

(2012) Kenichiro Sugitani et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The origin of multicellularity in cyanobacteria

(2011) Bettina E Schirrmeister et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes

(2011) Paul K. Strother et al.   NATURE

An early Ediacaran assemblage of macroscopic and morphologically differentiated eukaryotes

(2011) Xunlai Yuan et al.   NATURE

Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

(2011) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   NATURE

Microfossils of sulphur-metabolizing cells in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia

(2011) David Wacey et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Biogenicity of Morphologically Diverse Carbonaceous Microstructures from the ca. 3400 Ma Strelley Pool Formation, in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

(2010) Kenichiro Sugitani et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits

(2010) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   NATURE

Geobiology of the late Paleoproterozoic Duck Creek Formation, Western Australia

(2010) Jonathan P. Wilson et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Identification of a methylase required for 2-methylhopanoid production and implications for the interpretation of sedimentary hopanes

(2010) P. V. Welander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Timing of morphological and ecological innovations in the cyanobacteria – a key to understanding the rise in atmospheric oxygen

(2009) C. E. BLANK et al.   Geobiology

Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman imagery of ancient microscopic fossils

(2009) J. William Schopf et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Taxonomy and biogenicity of Archaean spheroidal microfossils (ca. 3.0Ga) from the Mount Goldsworthy–Mount Grant area in the northeastern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

(2009) Kenichiro Sugitani et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Fractionation between inorganic and organic carbon during the Lomagundi (2.22–2.1 Ga) carbon isotope excursion

(2008) A. Bekker et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Growth of synthetic stromatolites and wrinkle structures in the absence of microbes – implications for the early fossil record

(2008) N. MCLOUGHLIN et al.   Geobiology

Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

(2008) Birger Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean

(2008) C. Scott et al.   NATURE

Microbial remains in some earliest Earth rocks: Comparison with a potential modern analogue

(2008) Miryam Glikson et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Isotopic constraints on the Late Archean carbon cycle from the Transvaal Supergroup along the western margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa

(2008) W.W. Fischer et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH