Ancient biomolecules: Their origins, fossilization, and role in revealing the history of life

Skin pigmentation provides evidence of convergent melanism in extinct marine reptiles

(2014) Johan Lindgren et al.   NATURE

Experimental maturation of feathers: implications for reconstructions of fossil feather colour

(2013) M. E. McNamara et al.   Biology Letters

Bacterial and Fungal Diversity of Quaternary Cave Sediment Deposits

(2013) Laura Epure et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Molecular- and pollen-based vegetation analysis in lake sediments from central Scandinavia

(2013) Laura Parducci et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A mitochondrial genome sequence of a hominin from Sima de los Huesos

(2013) Matthias Meyer et al.   NATURE

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

(2013) Kay Prüfer et al.   NATURE

Impact of diagenesis and maturation on the survival of eumelanin in the fossil record

(2013) Keely Glass et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Hemoglobin-derived porphyrins preserved in a Middle Eocene blood-engorged mosquito

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

Evolution of the plankton paleome in the Black Sea from the Deglacial to Anthropocene

(2013) M. J. L. Coolen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular Paleohydrology: Interpreting the Hydrogen-Isotopic Composition of Lipid Biomarkers from Photosynthesizing Organisms

(2012) Dirk Sachse et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Resurrecting ancient animal genomes: The extinct moa and more

(2012) Leon Huynen et al.   BIOESSAYS

Molecular analyses of dinosaur osteocytes support the presence of endogenous molecules

(2012) Mary Higby Schweitzer et al.   BONE

Identification and characterization of Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 hopanoid biosynthesis mutants

(2012) P. V. WELANDER et al.   Geobiology

Biomarkers reveal the role of photic zone euxinia in exceptional fossil preservation: An organic geochemical perspective

(2012) Ines Melendez et al.   GEOLOGY

Detection of a Diverse Marine Fish Fauna Using Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples

(2012) Philip Francis Thomsen et al.   PLoS One

Exceptionally preserved crustaceans from western Canada reveal a cryptic Cambrian radiation

(2012) T. H. P. Harvey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Discovery, taxonomic distribution, and phenotypic characterization of a gene required for 3-methylhopanoid production

(2012) P. V. Welander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Direct chemical evidence for eumelanin pigment from the Jurassic period

(2012) K. Glass et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils

(2012) M. E. Allentoft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular preservation of the pigment melanin in fossil melanosomes

(2012) Johan Lindgren et al.   Nature Communications

New evidence on the colour and nature of the isolated Archaeopteryx feather

(2012) Ryan M. Carney et al.   Nature Communications

Molecular signature of chitin-protein complex in Paleozoic arthropods

(2011) G. D. Cody et al.   GEOLOGY

Mesofossil flora from the Late Cretaceous of New Zealand

(2010) David J. Cantrill et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

New indices and calibrations derived from the distribution of crenarchaeal isoprenoid tetraether lipids: Implications for past sea surface temperature reconstructions

(2010) Jung-Hyun Kim et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Hydrogen isotope ratios of leaf wax n-alkanes in grasses are insensitive to transpiration

(2010) Francesca A. McInerney et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Substitutions in woolly mammoth hemoglobin confer biochemical properties adaptive for cold tolerance

(2010) Kevin L Campbell et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Fossilized glycolipids reveal past oceanic N2 fixation by heterocystous cyanobacteria

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

Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur

(2010) Q. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Structural coloration in a fossil feather

(2009) J. Vinther et al.   Biology Letters

The Continuing Puzzle of the Great Oxidation Event

(2009) Alex L. Sessions et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

Where's the glass? Biomarkers, molecular clocks, and microRNAs suggest a 200-Myr missing Precambrian fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules

(2009) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Large D/H variations in bacterial lipids reflect central metabolic pathways

(2009) X. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biomolecular Characterization and Protein Sequences of the Campanian Hadrosaur B. canadensis

(2009) M. H. Schweitzer et al.   SCIENCE

The colour of fossil feathers

(2008) J. Vinther et al.   Biology Letters

Molecular proxies for paleoclimatology

(2008) Timothy I. Eglinton et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Diversity of hopanoids and squalene-hopene cyclases across a tropical land-sea gradient

(2008) Ann Pearson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Sterols in red and green algae: quantification, phylogeny, and relevance for the interpretation of geologic steranes

(2008) R. B. KODNER et al.   Geobiology

Annual patterns within tree rings of the Arctic middle Eocene (ca. 45 Ma): Isotopic signatures of precipitation, relative humidity, and deciduousness

(2008) A. Hope Jahren et al.   GEOLOGY

Sequencing the nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth

(2008) Webb Miller et al.   NATURE

Molecular structure of organic components in cephalopods: Evidence for oxidative cross linking in fossil marine invertebrates

(2008) Neal S. Gupta et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Characterization of permineralized kerogen from an Eocene fossil fern

(2008) Andrew D. Czaja et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records

(2008) K. J Peterson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES