[PDF][PDF] A critical review of mineral–microbe interaction and co-evolution: mechanisms and applications

H Dong, L Huang, L Zhao, Q Zeng, X Liu… - National science …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Mineral–microbe interactions play important roles in environmental change, biogeochemical
cycling of elements and formation of ore deposits. Minerals provide both beneficial (physical …

[HTML][HTML] Cyanobacteria and biogeochemical cycles through Earth history

P Sánchez-Baracaldo, G Bianchini, JD Wilson… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes to have evolved oxygenic photosynthesis,
transforming the biology and chemistry of our planet. Genomic and evolutionary studies …

Globally distributed Myxococcota with photosynthesis gene clusters illuminate the origin and evolution of a potentially chimeric lifestyle

L Li, D Huang, Y Hu, NM Rudling, DP Canniffe… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Photosynthesis is a fundamental biogeochemical process, thought to be restricted to a few
bacterial and eukaryotic phyla. However, understanding the origin and evolution of …

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

PF Hoffman, DS Abbot, Y Ashkenazy, DI Benn… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Geological evidence indicates that grounded ice sheets reached sea level at all latitudes
during two long-lived Cryogenian (58 and≥ 5 My) glaciations. Combined uranium-lead and …

Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life's early evolution and eukaryote origin

HC Betts, MN Puttick, JW Clark, TA Williams… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Establishing a unified timescale for the early evolution of Earth and life is challenging and
mired in controversy because of the paucity of fossil evidence, the difficulty of interpreting it …

On the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and Cyanobacteria

P Sánchez‐Baracaldo, T Cardona - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygenic phototrophs have played a fundamental role in Earth's history by enabling the rise
of atmospheric oxygen (O2) and paving the way for animal evolution. Understanding the …

Evolution of increased complexity and specificity at the dawn of form I Rubiscos

L Schulz, Z Guo, J Zarzycki, W Steinchen, JM Schuller… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The evolution of ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenases (Rubiscos) that
discriminate strongly between their substrate carbon dioxide and the undesired side …

On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria

RM Soo, J Hemp, DH Parks, WW Fischer… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The origin of oxygenic photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria led to the rise of oxygen on Earth~
2.3 billion years ago, profoundly altering the course of evolution by facilitating the …

Timing the evolution of antioxidant enzymes in cyanobacteria

JS Boden, KO Konhauser, LJ Robbins… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The ancestors of cyanobacteria generated Earth's first biogenic molecular oxygen, but how
they dealt with oxidative stress remains unconstrained. Here we investigate when …

Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited low-salinity habitats

P Sánchez-Baracaldo, JA Raven… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The early evolutionary history of the chloroplast lineage remains an open question. It is
widely accepted that the endosymbiosis that established the chloroplast lineage in …