Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes

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

(2022) Marie Catherine Sforna et al.   Nature Communications

Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history

(2022) Daniel B. Mills et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A centimeter-long bacterium with DNA contained in metabolically active, membrane-bound organelles

(2022) Jean-Marie Volland et al.   SCIENCE

The role of mitochondrial energetics in the origin and diversification of eukaryotes

(2022) Paul E. Schavemaker et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A case for an active eukaryotic marine biosphere during the Proterozoic era

(2022) Lisa K. Eckford-Soper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extinctions, Morphological Gaps, Major Transitions, Stem Groups, and the Origin of Major Clades, with a Focus on Early Animals

(2022) Shuhai XIAO   ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION

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

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

(2021) Qing Tang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A molecular timescale for eukaryote evolution with implications for the origin of red algal-derived plastids

(2021) Jürgen F. H. Strassert et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2021) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Bacterial and archaeal symbioses with protists

(2021) Filip Husnik et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Shale-hosted biota from the Dismal Lakes Group in Arctic Canada supports an early Mesoproterozoic diversification of eukaryotes

(2021) Corentin C. Loron et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reefs

(2021) Elizabeth C. Turner   NATURE

The developmental biology of Charnia and the eumetazoan affinity of the Ediacaran rangeomorphs

(2021) Frances S. Dunn et al.   Science Advances

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

The dynamics of stem and crown groups

(2020) Graham E. Budd et al.   Science Advances

A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte

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

The Archaeal Roots of the Eukaryotic Dynamic Actin Cytoskeleton

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

Superorganisms of the Protist Kingdom: A New Level of Biological Organization

(2020) Łukasz Lamża   Foundations of Science

Constructional and functional anatomy of Ediacaran rangeomorphs

(2020) Nicholas J Butterfield   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

High-resolution correlation between contrasting early Tonian carbonate successions in NW Canada highlights pronounced global carbon isotope variations

(2020) J. Wilder Greenman et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

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

Organism motility in an oxygenated shallow-marine environment 2.1 billion years ago

(2019) Abderrazak El Albani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution: Ancient Fossilized Amoebae Find Their Home in the Tree

(2019) Susannah M. Porter et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada

(2019) Corentin C. Loron et al.   NATURE

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

Valuable snapshots of deep time

(2018) Emma U. Hammarlund   Nature Geoscience

Triple oxygen isotope evidence for limited mid-Proterozoic primary productivity

(2018) Peter W. Crockford et al.   NATURE

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

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

New record of organic-walled, morphologically distinct microfossils from the late Paleoproterozoic Changcheng Group in the Yanshan Range, North China

(2018) Lanyun Miao et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Organic-walled microfossils from the late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic lower Shaler Supergroup (Arctic Canada): Diversity and biostratigraphic significance

(2018) Corentin C. Loron et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A Laurentian record of the earliest fossil eukaryotes

(2017) Zachary R. Adam et al.   GEOLOGY

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

Carbonaceous and siliceous Neoproterozoic vase-shaped microfossils (Urucum Formation, Brazil) and the question of early protistan biomineralization

(2017) Luana Morais et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

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

Vase-shaped microfossil biostratigraphy with new data from Tasmania, Svalbard, Greenland, Sweden and the Yukon

(2017) Leigh Anne Riedman et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

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

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

Five palaeobiological laws needed to understand the evolution of the living biota

(2017) Charles R. Marshall   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Systematics of organic-walled microfossils from the ca. 780–740 Ma Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona

(2016) Susannah M. Porter et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Organic-walled microfossils of the mid-Neoproterozoic Alinya Formation, Officer Basin, Australia

(2016) Leigh Anne Riedman et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Micropaleontology of the lower Mesoproterozoic Roper Group, Australia, and implications for early eukaryotic evolution

(2016) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China

(2016) Shixing Zhu et al.   Nature Communications

Affinity, life cycle, and intracellular complexity of organic-walled microfossils from the Mesoproterozoic of Shanxi, China

(2015) Heda Agić et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2015) Anja Spang et al.   NATURE

A biomechanical analysis of the early eukaryotic fossil Valeria and new occurrence of organic-walled microfossils from the Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Ruyang Group

(2015) Ke Pang et al.   Palaeoworld

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

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Early evolution of the Eukaryota

(2014) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PALAEONTOLOGY

The 2.1 Ga Old Francevillian Biota: Biogenicity, Taphonomy and Biodiversity

(2014) Abderrazak El Albani et al.   PLoS One

Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Eukaryotic Evolution

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

On the Age of Eukaryotes: Evaluating Evidence from Fossils and Molecular Clocks

(2014) L. Eme et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Molecular paleontology and complexity in the last eukaryotic common ancestor

(2013) V. Lila Koumandou et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Fossilization causes organisms to appear erroneously primitive by distorting evolutionary trees

(2013) Robert S. Sansom et al.   Scientific Reports

Scale microfossils from the mid-Neoproterozoic Fifteenmile Group, Yukon Territory

(2012) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity

(2011) Andrew H. Knoll   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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

(2011) Diana Chernikova et al.   Biology Direct

The rise of predators

(2011) Susannah Porter   GEOLOGY

Phosphate biomineralization in mid-Neoproterozoic protists

(2011) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   GEOLOGY

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

Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago

(2010) Abderrazak El Albani et al.   NATURE

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

(2010) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   NATURE

Early life: Origins of multicellularity

(2010) Philip C. J. Donoghue et al.   NATURE

The energetics of genome complexity

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   NATURE

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

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

Horodyskia williamsii new species, a Mesoproterozoic macrofossil from Western Australia

(2010) Kathleen Grey et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The ‘string of beads’ fossil (Horodyskia) in the mid-Proterozoic of Tasmania

(2010) Clive R. Calver et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Phylogenomics of Sterol Synthesis: Insights into the Origin, Evolution, and Diversity of a Key Eukaryotic Feature

(2009) Elie Desmond et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Taxonomy and affinity of Early Mesoproterozoic megascopic helically coiled and related fossils from the Rohtas Formation, the Vindhyan Supergroup, India

(2009) Mukund Sharma et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

Ecological strategies of protists and their symbiotic relationships with prokaryotic microbes

(2009) Rebecca J. Gast et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Giant Deep-Sea Protist Produces Bilaterian-like Traces

(2008) Mikhail V. Matz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Silicified Horodyskia and Palaeopascichnus from upper Ediacaran cherts in South China: tentative phylogenetic interpretation and implications for evolutionary stasis

(2008) LIN DONG et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity

(2008) J. L. Payne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

OCEANS: Elements and Evolution

(2008) A. D. Anbar   SCIENCE