| Reconstructed ancestral enzymes suggest long-term cooling of Earth’s photic zone since the Archean AK Garcia, JW Schopf, S Yokobori, S Akanuma, A Yamagishi Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (18), 4619-4624, 2017 | 72 | 2017 |
| Reconstructing the evolutionary history of nitrogenases: Evidence for ancestral molybdenum‐cofactor utilization AK Garcia, H McShea, B Kolaczkowski, B Kaçar Geobiology 18 (3), 394-411, 2020 | 71 | 2020 |
| How to resurrect ancestral proteins as proxies for ancient biogeochemistry AK Garcia, B Kaçar Free Radical Biology and Medicine 140, 260-269, 2019 | 60 | 2019 |
| Carbonaceous and siliceous Neoproterozoic vase-shaped microfossils (Urucum Formation, Brazil) and the question of early protistan biomineralization L Morais, TR Fairchild, DJG Lahr, ID Rudnitzki, JW Schopf, AK Garcia, ... Journal of Paleontology 91 (3), 393-406, 2017 | 43 | 2017 |
| The curious consistency of carbon biosignatures over billions of years of Earth-life coevolution AK Garcia, CM Cavanaugh, B Kacar The ISME Journal 15 (8), 2183-2194, 2021 | 41 | 2021 |
| Resurrected Rubisco suggests uniform carbon isotope signatures over geologic time M Kędzior, AK Garcia, M Li, A Taton, ZR Adam, JN Young, B Kaçar Cell reports 39 (4), 2022 | 24 | 2022 |
| Evolutionary History of Bioessential Elements Can Guide the Search for Life in the Universe B Kacar, AK Garcia, AD Anbar ChemBioChem 22 (1), 114-119, 2021 | 22 | 2021 |
| Reconstruction of nitrogenase predecessors suggests origin from maturase-like proteins AK Garcia, B Kolaczkowski, B Kaçar Genome Biology and Evolution 14 (3), evac031, 2022 | 18 | 2022 |
| In situ confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman spectroscopy of bisaccate pollen from the Irati Subgroup (Permian, Paraná Basin, Brazil): comparison with acid-macerated … JW Schopf, CP Calça, AK Garcia, AB Kudryavtsev, PA Souza, CM Félix, ... Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 233, 169-175, 2016 | 14 | 2016 |
| Nitrogenase resurrection and the evolution of a singular enzymatic mechanism AK Garcia, DF Harris, AJ Rivier, BM Carruthers, A Pinochet-Barros, ... Elife 12, e85003, 2023 | 13 | 2023 |
| Functional divergence and spectral tuning of microbial rhodopsins from an ancestral proton pump CD Sephus, E Fer, AK Garcia, ZR Adam, EW Schwieterman, B Kaçar bioRxiv, 2021 | 10* | 2021 |
| Earliest photic zone niches probed by ancestral microbial rhodopsins CD Sephus, E Fer, AK Garcia, ZR Adam, EW Schwieterman, B Kacar Molecular Biology and Evolution 39 (5), msac100, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
| System-level effects of CO2 and RuBisCO concentration on carbon isotope fractionation AK Garcia, M Kedzior, A Taton, M Li, JN Young, B Kaçar BioRxiv, 2021.04. 20.440233, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Automated Laboratory Growth Assessment and Maintenance of Azotobacter vinelandii BM Carruthers, AK Garcia, A Rivier, B Kacar Current Protocols 1 (3), e57, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Early nitrogenase ancestors encompassed novel active site diversity SL Schwartz, AK Garcia, B Kaçar, GP Fournier Molecular Biology and Evolution 39 (11), msac226, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
| Development of an apatite oxygen paleobarometer: experimental characterization of Sm3+-substituted apatite fluorescence as a function of oxygen availability AK Garcia Precambrian Research 349, 105389, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Application of the apatite oxygen paleobarometer (AOP) across the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition JW Schopf, AK Garcia Precambrian Research 349, 105404, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Effects of RuBisCO and CO2 concentration on cyanobacterial growth and carbon isotope fractionation AK Garcia, M Kędzior, A Taton, M Li, JN Young, B Kaçar Geobiology 21 (3), 390-403, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
| Molecular foundations of Precambrian uniformitarianism M Kędzior, AK Garcia, M Li, A Taton, ZR Adam, JN Young, B Kaçar BioRxiv, 2021.05. 31.446354, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
| Regulatory response to a hybrid ancestral nitrogenase in Azotobacter vinelandii AJ Rivier, KS Myers, AK Garcia, MS Sobol, B Kaçar Microbiology Spectrum 11 (5), e02815-23, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
