The “Dirty Ice” of the McMurdo Ice Shelf: Analogues for biological oases during the Cryogenian

Biologically agglutinated eukaryotic microfossil from Cryogenian cap carbonates

(2017) K. R. Moore et al.   Geobiology

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

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Cryogenian of Yukon

(2017) Francis A. Macdonald et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Using Captain Scott's Discovery specimens to unlock the past: has Antarctic cyanobacterial diversity changed over the last 100 years?

(2017) Anne D. Jungblut et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria

(2017) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   SCIENCE

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

(2017) Paul F. Hoffman et al.   Science Advances

Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data

(2017) Martin Dohrmann et al.   Scientific Reports

Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

(2016) Grant M. Cox et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Cryoconite pans on Snowball Earth: supraglacial oases for Cryogenian eukaryotes?

(2016) P. F. Hoffman   Geobiology

Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota

(2016) Judy P. Pu et al.   GEOLOGY

A eukaryote assemblage intercalated with Marinoan glacial deposits in South Australia

(2016) D. P. Le Heron et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse-greenhouse variability

(2016) N. R. McKenzie et al.   SCIENCE

A Cryogenian chronology: Two long-lasting synchronous Neoproterozoic glaciations

(2015) Alan D. Rooney et al.   GEOLOGY

Orbitally forced ice sheet fluctuations during the Marinoan Snowball Earth glaciation

(2015) Douglas I. Benn et al.   Nature Geoscience

FOSSILS OF PUTATIVE MARINE ALGAE FROM THE CRYOGENIAN GLACIAL INTERLUDE OF MONGOLIA

(2015) P. A. COHEN et al.   PALAIOS

The Proterozoic Record of Eukaryotes

(2015) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

What animals can live in cryoconite holes? A faunal review

(2014) K. Zawierucha et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Decadal timescale variability in ecosystem properties in the ponds of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

(2013) Ian Hawes et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Nitrogen and carbon limitation of planktonic primary production and phytoplankton–bacterioplankton coupling in ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

(2013) Brian K Sorrell et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A metagenomic snapshot of taxonomic and functional diversity in an alpine glacier cryoconite ecosystem

(2013) Arwyn Edwards et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Lake ice ablation rates from permanently ice-covered Antarctic lakes

(2013) H.A. Dugan et al.   JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY

PRESERVATIONAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIABILITY OF ASSEMBLAGES OF AGGLUTINATED EUKARYOTES IN CRYOGENIAN CAP CARBONATES OF NORTHERN NAMIBIA

(2013) L. A. DALTON et al.   PALAIOS

Re-Os geochronology and coupled Os-Sr isotope constraints on the Sturtian snowball Earth

(2013) A. D. Rooney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neoproterozoic glaciations in a revised global palaeogeography from the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Gondwanaland

(2013) Zheng-Xiang Li et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Eukaryotes in Arctic and Antarctic cyanobacterial mats

(2012) Anne D. Jungblut et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Continental constriction and oceanic ice-cover thickness in a Snowball-Earth scenario

(2012) Eli Tziperman et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Summer–winter transitions in Antarctic ponds I: The physical environment

(2011) Ian Hawes et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Agglutinated tests in post-Sturtian cap carbonates of Namibia and Mongolia

(2011) T. Bosak et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Structure and diversity of bacterial, eukaryotic and archaeal communities in glacial cryoconite holes from the Arctic and the Antarctic

(2011) Karen A. Cameron et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Possible early foraminiferans in post-Sturtian (716−635 Ma) cap carbonates

(2011) Tanja Bosak et al.   GEOLOGY

Biologically induced initiation of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth events

(2011) E. Tziperman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

A carbon cycle coupled climate model of Neoproterozoic glaciation: Influence of continental configuration on the formation of a “soft snowball”

(2010) Yonggang Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Metagenomic profiling of Arctic microbial mat communities as nutrient scavenging and recycling systems

(2010) Thibault Varin et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Calibrating the Cryogenian

(2010) F. A. Macdonald et al.   SCIENCE

Stratigraphic and tectonic implications of a newly discovered glacial diamictite–cap carbonate couplet in southwestern Mongolia

(2009) Francis A. Macdonald et al.   GEOLOGY

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Rapid adaptation of phytoplankters to geothermal waters is achieved by single mutations: were extreme environments ‘Noah's Arks’ for photosynthesizers during the Neoproterozoic ‘snowball Earth’?

(2008) Eduardo Costas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Origin of petroleum in the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian South Oman Salt Basin

(2008) E. Grosjean et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Lipid biomarker analysis of cyanobacteria-dominated microbial mats in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

(2008) Anne D. Jungblut et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY