Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited low-salinity habitats

The possible evolution and future of CO2-concentrating mechanisms

(2017) John A Raven et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

Membranes, energetics, and evolution across the prokaryote-eukaryote divide

(2017) Michael Lynch et al.   eLife

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 photorespiration from cyanobacteria to land plants, considering protein phylogenies and acquisition of carbon concentrating mechanisms

(2016) Martin Hagemann et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

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

Late acquisition of mitochondria by a host with chimaeric prokaryotic ancestry

(2016) Alexandros A. Pittis et al.   NATURE

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

Divergence time estimates and the evolution of major lineages in the florideophyte red algae

(2016) Eun Chan Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

Chloroplast phylogenomic analyses reveal the deepest-branching lineage of the Chlorophyta, Palmophyllophyceae class. nov.

(2016) Frederik Leliaert et al.   Scientific Reports

The Evolutionary Origin of a Terrestrial Flora

(2015) Charles Francis Delwiche et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2015) Anja Spang et al.   NATURE

Palaeoecology of a billion-year-old non-marine cyanobacterium from the Torridon Group and Nonesuch Formation

(2015) Paul K. Strother et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

(2015) Bettina E. Schirrmeister et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The bioenergetic costs of a gene

(2015) Michael Lynch 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

High Molybdenum availability for evolution in a Mesoproterozoic lacustrine environment

(2015) John Parnell et al.   Nature Communications

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

Active water transport in unicellular algae: where, why, and how

(2014) J. A. Raven et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

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

Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Eukaryotic Evolution

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

The Eukaryotic Tree of Life from a Global Phylogenomic Perspective

(2014) F. Burki   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The plastid ancestor originated among one of the major cyanobacterial lineages

(2014) Jesús A. G. Ochoa de Alda et al.   Nature Communications

Anoxia in the terrestrial environment during the late Mesoproterozoic

(2013) Vivien M. Cumming et al.   GEOLOGY

Resistance of Filamentous Chlorophycean, Ulvophycean, and Xanthophycean Algae to Acetolysis: Testing Proterozoic and Paleozoic Microfossil Attributions

(2013) Linda E. Graham et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Origins and diversity of eukaryotic CO2-concentrating mechanisms: lessons for the future

(2013) Moritz Meyer et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Green algae (Chlorophyta) and the question of freshwater symbiogenesis in the early proterozoic

(2013) Martin D. Brasier   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Origin and early evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes in freshwater environments: reinterpreting proterozoic paleobiology and biogeochemical processes in light of trait evolution

(2013) Carrine E. Blank   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

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

COVARIANCE OF MICROFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES AND MICROBIALITE TEXTURES ACROSS AN UPPER MESOPROTEROZOIC CARBONATE PLATFORM

(2013) A. H. KNOLL et al.   PALAIOS

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

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

PhyloBayes MPI: Phylogenetic Reconstruction with Infinite Mixtures of Profiles in a Parallel Environment

(2013) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

Genomes of Stigonematalean Cyanobacteria (Subsection V) and the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis from Prokaryotes to Plastids

(2012) Tal Dagan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A congruent phylogenomic signal places eukaryotes within the Archaea

(2012) T. A. Williams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cyanophora paradoxa Genome Elucidates Origin of Photosynthesis in Algae and Plants

(2012) D. C. Price et al.   SCIENCE

Snow ball earth and the split of Streptophyta and Chlorophyta

(2012) Burkhard Becker   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Origin of land plants: Do conjugating green algae hold the key?

(2011) Sabina Wodniok et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Nitrogen fixation and transfer in open ocean diatom–cyanobacterial symbioses

(2011) Rachel A Foster et al.   ISME Journal

Large-Scale Phylogenomic Analyses Indicate a Deep Origin of Primary Plastids within Cyanobacteria

(2011) Alexis Criscuolo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes

(2011) Paul K. Strother et al.   NATURE

raxmlGUI: a graphical front-end for RAxML

(2011) Daniele Silvestro et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

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

Complex microbiome underlying secondary and primary metabolism in the tunicate-Prochloron symbiosis

(2011) M. S. Donia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

SequenceMatrix: concatenation software for the fast assembly of multi-gene datasets with character set and codon information

(2010) Gaurav Vaidya et al.   CLADISTICS

Multigene Phylogeny of the Green Lineage Reveals the Origin and Diversification of Land Plants

(2010) Cédric Finet et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dating the cyanobacterial ancestor of the chloroplast

(2010) Luisa I Falcón et al.   ISME Journal

Differential Gene Retention in Plastids of Common Recent Origin

(2010) A. Reyes-Prieto et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The energetics of genome complexity

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   NATURE

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

Rapid and Accurate Large-Scale Coestimation of Sequence Alignments and Phylogenetic Trees

(2009) K. Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Origin and Radiation of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants

(2009) P. Steemans et al.   SCIENCE

A multi-locus time-calibrated phylogeny of the siphonous green algae

(2008) Heroen Verbruggen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

(2008) Birger Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary ecology during the rise of dioxygen in the Earth's atmosphere

(2008) N. H Sleep et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome evolution in cyanobacteria: The stable core and the variable shell

(2008) T. Shi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wall ultrastructure in some dispersed megaspores and seed-megaspores from the Middle Devonian of northern Poland

(2008) E. Turnau et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles

(2008) P. G. Falkowski et al.   SCIENCE

Taxon Sampling Affects Inferences of Macroevolutionary Processes from Phylogenetic Trees

(2008) Tracy A. Heath et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The diversity of the Carboniferous phytoplankton

(2007) G.L. Mullins et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY