The Proterozoic macrofossil Tawuia as a coenocytic eukaryote and a possible macroalga

Initiation of continental breakup documented in evolution of the magma plumbing system of the ca. 925 Ma Dashigou large igneous province, North China

(2021) Xiangdong Su et al.   LITHOS

Reconstructing Tonian seawater 87Sr/86Sr using calcite microspar

(2020) Ying Zhou et al.   GEOLOGY

A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte

(2020) Qing Tang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

An assemblage of macroscopic and diversified carbonaceous compression fossils from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang Formation in western Shandong, North China

(2020) Guangjin Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

New insights on the palaeobiology and biostratigraphy of the acritarch Trachyhystrichosphaera aimika: A potential late Mesoproterozoic to Tonian index fossil

(2020) Ke Pang et al.   Palaeoworld

Seaweeds through time: Morphological and ecological analysis of Proterozoic and early Paleozoic benthic macroalgae

(2020) Natalia Bykova et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

New geochronologic and paleomagnetic results from early Neoproterozoic mafic sills and late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic successions in the eastern North China Craton, and implications for the reconstruction of Rodinia

(2019) Hanqing Zhao et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Tongjiazhuang Formation of the Tumen Group in western Shandong, North China Craton and their biostratigraphic significance

(2019) Guangjin Li et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Challenges in evidencing the earliest traces of life

(2019) Emmanuelle J. Javaux   NATURE

The pseudofossil Horodyskia: Flocs and flakes on microbial mats in a shallow Mesoproterozoic sea (Appekunny Formation, Belt Supergroup, western North America)

(2019) Roy G. Rule et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Provenance analysis of the late Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic Xuhuai Basin in the southeast North China Craton: Implications for paleogeographic reconstruction

(2019) Fengbo Sun et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Nitrogen-Fixing Heterocystous Cyanobacteria in the Tonian Period

(2018) Ke Pang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Oxygen, animals and aquatic bioturbation: An updated account

(2017) N. J. Butterfield   Geobiology

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Diversity of organic-walled microfossils from the early Mesoproterozoic Ruyang Group, North China Craton – A window into the early eukaryote evolution

(2017) Heda Agić et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited low-salinity habitats

(2017) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Electron microscopy reveals evidence for simple multicellularity in the Proterozoic fossilChuaria

(2016) Qing Tang et al.   GEOLOGY

A diverse and exquisitely preserved organic-walled microfossil assemblage from the Meso–Neoproterozoic Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup (Democratic Republic of Congo) and implications for Proterozoic biostratigraphy

(2016) B.K. Baludikay et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China

(2016) Shixing Zhu et al.   Nature Communications

A global transition to ferruginous conditions in the early Neoproterozoic oceans

(2015) Romain Guilbaud et al.   Nature Geoscience

Organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Gouhou Formation, Huaibei region, North China Craton, and their biostratigraphic implications

(2015) Qing Tang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Plant architecture without multicellularity: quandaries over patterning and the soma-germline divide in siphonous algae

(2015) Viktoriya Coneva et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

U–Pb geochronology of baddeleyite from the Belleview metadiabase: Age and geotectonic implications for the Negaunee Iron Formation, Michigan

(2014) Natalie Pietrzak-Renaud et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Eukaryotic Evolution

(2014) A. H. Knoll   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Green Algae and the Origins of Multicellularity in the Plant Kingdom

(2014) J. G. Umen   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Organic-walled microfossils from the early Neoproterozoic Liulaobei Formation in the Huainan region of North China and their biostratigraphic significance

(2013) Qing Tang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Primary endosymbiosis events date to the later Proterozoic with cross-calibrated phylogenetic dating of duplicated ATPase proteins

(2013) P. M. Shih et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mesoproterozoic magmatic events in the eastern North China Craton and their tectonic implications: Geochronological evidence from detrital zircons in the Shandong Peninsula and North Korea

(2012) Bo Hu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Neoproterozoic (~900Ma) Sariwon sills in North Korea: Geochronology, geochemistry and implications for the evolution of the south-eastern margin of the North China Craton

(2011) Peng Peng et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

How does a hypha grow? The biophysics of pressurized growth in fungi

(2011) Roger R. Lew   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Salt stress-induced cell death in the unicellular green alga Micrasterias denticulata

(2009) M. J. Affenzeller et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

On the affinity of Chuaria–Tawuia complex: A multidisciplinary study

(2009) Mukund Sharma et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A multi-locus time-calibrated phylogeny of the siphonous green algae

(2008) Heroen Verbruggen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Restudy of the worm-like carbonaceous compression fossils Protoarenicola, Pararenicola, and Sinosabellidites from early Neoproterozoic successions in North China

(2007) Lin Dong et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY