Earth’s oxygen cycle and the evolution of animal life

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

(2016) Devon B. Cole et al.   GEOLOGY

Sufficient oxygen for animal respiration 1,400 million years ago

(2016) Shuichang Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

(2015) Erik A. Sperling et al.   NATURE

Reply to Lane and Martin: Being and becoming eukaryotes

(2015) Austin Booth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxygen and animal evolution: Did a rise of atmospheric oxygen “trigger” the origin of animals?

(2014) Daniel B. Mills et al.   BIOESSAYS

Of early animals, anaerobic mitochondria, and a modern sponge

(2014) Marek Mentel et al.   BIOESSAYS

Co-evolution of eukaryotes and ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic era

(2014) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Oxygen requirements of the earliest animals

(2014) D. B. Mills et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Quantifying the areal extent and dissolved oxygen concentrations of Archean oxygen oases

(2013) Stephanie L. Olson et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Oxidative sulfide dissolution on the early Earth

(2013) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

A basin redox transect at the dawn of animal life

(2013) Erik A. Sperling et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Reconstructing pre-Pangean supercontinents

(2013) D. A. D. Evans   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Digital instability of a confined elastic meniscus

(2013) J. S. Biggins 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

Late Ediacaran redox stability and metazoan evolution

(2012) D.T. Johnston et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Biochemistry and Evolution of Anaerobic Energy Metabolism in Eukaryotes

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

Nutrients as the dominant control on the spread of anoxia and euxinia across the Cenomanian-Turonian oceanic anoxic event (OAE2): Model-data comparison

(2012) F. M. Monteiro et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Slow release of fossil carbon during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

(2011) Ying Cui et al.   Nature Geoscience

Six major steps in animal evolution: are we derived sponge larvae?

(2010) Claus Nielsen   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

The energetics of genome complexity

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   NATURE

Phanerozoic concentrations of atmospheric oxygen reconstructed from sedimentary charcoal

(2010) Ian J. Glasspool et al.   Nature Geoscience

Ocean Deoxygenation in a Warming World

(2009) Ralph F. Keeling et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view

(2009) N. J. BUTTERFIELD   Geobiology

Phylogenetic Distributions and Histories of Proteins Involved in Anaerobic Pyruvate Metabolism in Eukaryotes

(2009) L. A. Hug et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The cycling and redox state of nitrogen in the Archaean ocean

(2009) Linda V. Godfrey et al.   Nature Geoscience

Large spinose microfossils in Ediacaran rocks as resting stages of early animals

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

Oceanic Euxinia in Earth History: Causes and Consequences

(2008) Katja M. Meyer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences