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

Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze

(2014) Jonathan B. Antcliffe et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

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

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

Oxygen and animals in Earth history

(2014) A. H. Knoll et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

The Genomic and Cellular Foundations of Animal Origins

(2013) Daniel J. Richter et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

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

(2013) Stephanie L. Olson 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

Novel Scenarios of Early Animal Evolution--Is It Time to Rewrite Textbooks?

(2013) M. Dohrmann et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

(2013) Tetyana Nosenko et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Oxygen dynamics in the aftermath of the Great Oxidation of Earth's atmosphere

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

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

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

Surviving in a Marine Desert: The Sponge Loop Retains Resources Within Coral Reefs

(2013) Jasper M. de Goeij et al.   SCIENCE

The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

The end of the Ediacara biota: Extinction, biotic replacement, or Cheshire Cat?

(2012) Marc Laflamme et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Biochemistry and Evolution of Anaerobic Energy Metabolism in Eukaryotes

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

Ocean oxygenation in the wake of the Marinoan glaciation

(2012) Swapan K. Sahoo et al.   NATURE

Contributions to late Archaean sulphur cycling by life on land

(2012) Eva E. Stüeken et al.   Nature Geoscience

Sulfur record of rising and falling marine oxygen and sulfate levels during the Lomagundi event

(2012) N. J. Planavsky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A bacterial sulfonolipid triggers multicellular development in the closest living relatives of animals

(2012) Rosanna A Alegado et al.   eLife

The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity

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

Oxygen overshoot and recovery during the early Paleoproterozoic

(2011) A. Bekker et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

(2011) Lawrence M. Och et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ecological drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa

(2011) Douglas H. Erwin et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The first metazoa living in permanently anoxic conditions

(2010) Roberto Danovaro et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Anaerobic animals from an ancient, anoxic ecological niche

(2010) Marek Mentel et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

(2010) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   NATURE

The energetics of genome complexity

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   NATURE

Possible animal-body fossils in pre-Marinoan limestones from South Australia

(2010) Adam C. Maloof et al.   Nature Geoscience

The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective

(2010) Jonathan L. Payne et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish

(2010) T. W. Dahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Fractal Organic Hazes Provided an Ultraviolet Shield for Early Earth

(2010) E. T. Wolf et al.   SCIENCE

Collagen Structure and Stability

(2009) Matthew D. Shoulders et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view

(2009) N. J. BUTTERFIELD   Geobiology

Fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric oxygenation recorded by chromium isotopes

(2009) Robert Frei et al.   NATURE

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Placozoa and the evolution of Metazoa and intrasomatic cell differentiation

(2008) Bernd Schierwater et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Oxygen dynamics and transport in the Mediterranean sponge Aplysina aerophoba

(2008) Friederike Hoffmann et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean

(2008) C. Scott et al.   NATURE

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   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

The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance

(2008) G. E Budd   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ferruginous Conditions Dominated Later Neoproterozoic Deep-Water Chemistry

(2008) D. E. Canfield et al.   SCIENCE