Did sulfate availability facilitate the evolutionary expansion of chlorophyll a+c phytoplankton in the oceans?

Sulfur Assimilation in Photosynthetic Organisms: Molecular Functions and Regulations of Transporters and Assimilatory Enzymes

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Isotopic evidence for an anomalously low oceanic sulfate concentration following end-Permian mass extinction

(2010) Genming Luo et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Low marine sulfate concentrations and the isolation of the European epicontinental sea during the Early Jurassic

(2010) Robert J. Newton et al.   GEOLOGY

Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean

(2010) Benjamin C. Gill et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary inheritance of elemental stoichiometry in phytoplankton

(2010) A. Quigg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Patterns of Diversity in Marine Phytoplankton

(2010) A. D. Barton et al.   SCIENCE

Crustaceans from bitumen clast in Carboniferous glacial diamictite extend fossil record of copepods

(2010) Paul A. Selden et al.   Nature Communications

Oceanographic and Biogeochemical Insights from Diatom Genomes

(2009) Chris Bowler et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Evaporites through time: Tectonic, climatic and eustatic controls in marine and nonmarine deposits

(2009) John K. Warren   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Coevolution of metal availability and nitrogen assimilation in cyanobacteria and algae

(2009) J. B. GLASS et al.   Geobiology

Anoxygenic photosynthesis modulated Proterozoic oxygen and sustained Earth's middle age

(2009) D. T. Johnston et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean

(2008) C. Scott et al.   NATURE

Ferruginous Conditions Dominated Later Neoproterozoic Deep-Water Chemistry

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