Manganese and the Evolution of Photosynthesis

O2constraints from Paleoproterozoic detrital pyrite and uraninite

(2014) Jena E. Johnson et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

(2014) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

SQUID-SIMS is a useful approach to uncover primary signals in the Archean sulfur cycle

(2014) W. W. Fischer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reply to Jones and Crowe: Correcting mistaken views of sedimentary geology, Mn-oxidation rates, and molecular clocks

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

Manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis before the rise of cyanobacteria

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

Evolution of Photosynthesis

(2011) Martin F. Hohmann-Marriott et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Manganese enrichment in the Gowganda Formation of the Huronian Supergroup: A highly oxidizing shallow-marine environment after the last Huronian glaciation

(2011) Yasuhito Sekine et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Constraining atmospheric oxygen and seawater sulfate concentrations during Paleoproterozoic glaciation: In situ sulfur three-isotope microanalysis of pyrite from the Turee Creek Group, Western Australia

(2011) Kenneth H. Williford et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å

(2011) Yasufumi Umena et al.   NATURE

From BIF to red beds: Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the Paleoproterozoic Koegas Subgroup (South Africa)

(2010) S. Schröder et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Menaquinone as pool quinone in a purple bacterium

(2009) B. Schoepp-Cothenet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why did Nature choose manganese to make oxygen?

(2007) F. A Armstrong   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES