Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history

How low can they go? Aerobic respiration by microorganisms under apparent anoxia

(2022) Jasmine Berg et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Strong evidence for a weakly oxygenated ocean–atmosphere system during the Proterozoic

(2022) Changle Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intracellular bound chlorophyll residues identify 1 Gyr-old fossils as eukaryotic algae

(2022) Marie Catherine Sforna et al.   Nature Communications

Reexamination of 2.5-Ga “whiff” of oxygen interval points to anoxic ocean before GOE

(2022) Sarah P. Slotznick et al.   Science Advances

Site-and-branch-heterogeneous analyses of an expanded dataset favour mitochondria as sister to known Alphaproteobacteria

(2022) Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation

(2021) Jagoda Jabłońska et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A possible billion-year-old holozoan with differentiated multicellularity

(2021) Paul K. Strother et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

New multicellular marine macroalgae from the early Tonian of northwestern Canada

(2021) Katie M. Maloney et al.   GEOLOGY

A 200-million-year delay in permanent atmospheric oxygenation

(2021) Simon W. Poulton et al.   NATURE

The Proterozoic macrofossil Tawuia as a coenocytic eukaryote and a possible macroalga

(2021) Qing Tang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Organic matter mineralization in modern and ancient ferruginous sediments

(2021) André Friese et al.   Nature Communications

Oxygenation, Life, and the Planetary System during Earth's Middle History: An Overview

(2021) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Evolution of bacterial steroid biosynthesis and its impact on eukaryogenesis

(2021) Yosuke Hoshino et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A prolonged, two-step oxygenation of Earth's early atmosphere: Support from confidence intervals

(2021) Malcolm S.W. Hodgskiss et al.   GEOLOGY

Triple oxygen isotope constraints on atmospheric O2 and biological productivity during the mid-Proterozoic

(2021) Peng Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The earliest history of eukaryotic life: uncovering an evolutionary story through the integration of biological and geological data

(2021) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface

(2020) Hiroyuki Imachi et al.   NATURE

Molecular identification of fungi microfossils in a Neoproterozoic shale rock

(2020) S. Bonneville et al.   Science Advances

A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte

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

Cultured Asgard Archaea Shed Light on Eukaryogenesis

(2020) Purificación López-García et al.   CELL

The Archaeal Roots of the Eukaryotic Dynamic Actin Cytoskeleton

(2020) Courtney W. Stairs et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Syntrophy hypothesis for the origin of eukaryotes revisited

(2020) Purificación López-García et al.   Nature Microbiology

Seaweeds through time: Morphological and ecological analysis of Proterozoic and early Paleozoic benthic macroalgae

(2020) Natalia Bykova et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

On the use of models in understanding the rise of complex life

(2020) Timothy M. Lenton   Interface Focus

Insights into eukaryogenesis from the fossil record

(2020) Susannah M. Porter   Interface Focus

The origin of phagocytosis in Earth history

(2020) Daniel B. Mills   Interface Focus

Phylogenetic analyses with systematic taxon sampling show that mitochondria branch within Alphaproteobacteria

(2020) Lu Fan et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Genomic and fossil windows into the secret lives of the most ancient fungi

(2020) Mary L. Berbee et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Absence of biomarker evidence for early eukaryotic life from the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group: Searching across a marine redox gradient in mid-Proterozoic habitability

(2019) Kevin Nguyen et al.   Geobiology

Oxygen Reductases in Alphaproteobacterial Genomes: Physiological Evolution From Low to High Oxygen Environments

(2019) Mauro Degli Esposti et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Energy metabolism in anaerobic eukaryotes and Earth's late oxygenation

(2019) Verena Zimorski et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada

(2019) Corentin C. Loron et al.   NATURE

Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism

(2019) Anja Spang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Uranium isotope evidence for limited euxinia in mid-Proterozoic oceans

(2019) Geoffrey J. Gilleaudeau et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

On the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and Cyanobacteria

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

Light-driven anaerobic microbial oxidation of manganese

(2019) Mirna Daye et al.   NATURE

Phylogenomics provides robust support for a two-domains tree of life

(2019) Tom A. Williams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Paleoproterozoic fossil record: Implications for the evolution of the biosphere during Earth's middle-age

(2018) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Microbial eukaryotes have adapted to hypoxia by horizontal acquisitions of a gene involved in rhodoquinone biosynthesis

(2018) Courtney W Stairs et al.   eLife

Deep mitochondrial origin outside the sampled alphaproteobacteria

(2018) Joran Martijn et al.   NATURE

Stepwise oxygenation of the Paleozoic atmosphere

(2018) Alexander J. Krause et al.   Nature Communications

Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life’s early evolution and eukaryote origin

(2018) Holly C. Betts et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Early Archean origin of Photosystem II

(2018) Tanai Cardona et al.   Geobiology

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

Physiology, anaerobes, and the origin of mitosing cells 50 years on

(2017) William F. Martin   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The Physiology of Phagocytosis in the Context of Mitochondrial Origin

(2017) William F. Martin et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

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

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

(2017) Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al.   NATURE

Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

(2017) Laura Eme et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria

(2017) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   SCIENCE

Atmospheric oxygen regulation at low Proterozoic levels by incomplete oxidative weathering of sedimentary organic carbon

(2017) Stuart J. Daines et al.   Nature Communications

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

Cryogenian evolution of stigmasteroid biosynthesis

(2017) Yosuke Hoshino et al.   Science Advances

Fungus-like mycelial fossils in 2.4-billion-year-old vesicular basalt

(2017) Stefan Bengtson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

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

The effect of widespread early aerobic marine ecosystems on methane cycling and the Great Oxidation

(2016) Stuart J. Daines et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A shale-hosted Cr isotope record of low atmospheric oxygen during the Proterozoic

(2016) Devon B. Cole et al.   GEOLOGY

The evolution of methods for establishing evolutionary timescales

(2016) Philip C. J. Donoghue et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen

(2016) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lokiarchaeon is hydrogen dependent

(2016) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   Nature Microbiology

The Ecological Physiology of Earth's Second Oxygen Revolution

(2015) Erik A. Sperling et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

(2015) Erik A. Sperling et al.   NATURE

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2015) Anja Spang et al.   NATURE

Diversity and origins of anaerobic metabolism in mitochondria and related organelles

(2015) Courtney W. Stairs et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The two-domain tree of life is linked to a new root for the Archaea

(2015) Kasie Raymann 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

Of early animals, anaerobic mitochondria, and a modern sponge

(2014) Marek Mentel et al.   BIOESSAYS

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

The hybrid nature of the Eukaryota and a consilient view of life on Earth

(2014) James O. McInerney et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Early evolution of the Eukaryota

(2014) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PALAEONTOLOGY

Low Mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

(2014) N. J. Planavsky et al.   SCIENCE

Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Eukaryotic Evolution

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

Eukaryotic Origins: How and When Was the Mitochondrion Acquired?

(2014) A. M. Poole et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

From archaeon to eukaryote: the evolutionary dark ages of the eukaryotic cell

(2013) Joran Martijn et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

(2013) Sean A. Crowe et al.   NATURE

An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life

(2013) Tom A. Williams et al.   NATURE

Primary endosymbiosis events date to the later Proterozoic with cross-calibrated phylogenetic dating of duplicated ATPase proteins

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

Biochemistry and Evolution of Anaerobic Energy Metabolism in Eukaryotes

(2012) M. Muller et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

A late origin of the extant eukaryotic diversity: divergence time estimates using rare genomic changes

(2011) Diana Chernikova et al.   Biology Direct

Ferruginous Conditions: A Dominant Feature of the Ocean through Earth's History

(2011) S. W. Poulton et al.   Elements

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

Microaerobic steroid biosynthesis and the molecular fossil record of Archean life

(2011) J. R. Waldbauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The archaeal ‘TACK’ superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes

(2011) Lionel Guy et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The energetics of genome complexity

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   NATURE

Aerobic growth at nanomolar oxygen concentrations

(2010) D. A. Stolper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Distinguishing heat from light in debate over controversial fossils

(2009) Philip C. J. Donoghue et al.   BIOESSAYS

Syntrophy in anaerobic global carbon cycles

(2009) Michael J McInerney et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Towards a consistent classification scheme for geochemical environments, or, why we wish the term ‘suboxic’ would go away

(2009) D. E. CANFIELD et al.   Geobiology

Electron transfer in syntrophic communities of anaerobic bacteria and archaea

(2009) Alfons J. M. Stams et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence for eukaryotic diversification in the ∼1800 million-year-old Changzhougou Formation, North China

(2009) D.M. Lamb et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Modes of pre-Ediacaran multicellularity

(2009) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The controversial "Cambrian" fossils of the Vindhyan are real but more than a billion years older

(2009) S. Bengtson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

(2008) Birger Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

The rise of atmospheric oxygen

(2008) Lee R. Kump   NATURE

Energy metabolism among eukaryotic anaerobes in light of Proterozoic ocean chemistry

(2008) M. Mentel et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

New morphological observations for Paleoproterozoic acritarchs from the Chuanlinggou Formation, North China

(2008) Y PENG et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH