[HTML][HTML] Cyanobacteria evolution: Insight from the fossil record

CF Demoulin, YJ Lara, L Cornet, C François… - Free Radical Biology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria played an important role in the evolution of Early Earth and the biosphere.
They are responsible for the oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans since the Great …

Still challenging: the ecological function of the cyanobacterial toxin microcystin–What we know so far

A Omidi, M Esterhuizen-Londt, S Pflugmacher - Toxin reviews, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Microcystins (MCs) are the most commonly studied cyanotoxins. While these past studies
have mainly focused on the toxicity of MCs, the evolutionary history of life has shown that …

Cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event: evidence from genes and fossils

BE Schirrmeister, M Gugger, PCJ Donoghue - Palaeontology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacteria are among the most ancient of evolutionary lineages, oxygenic
photosynthesizers that may have originated before 3.0 Ga, as evidenced by free oxygen …

Evolution of multicellularity coincided with increased diversification of cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event

BE Schirrmeister, JM de Vos… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Cyanobacteria are among the most diverse prokaryotic phyla, with morphotypes ranging
from unicellular to multicellular filamentous forms, including those able to terminally (ie …

Ecogenomics and taxonomy of Cyanobacteria phylum

JM Walter, FH Coutinho, BE Dutilh, J Swings… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Cyanobacteria are major contributors to global biogeochemical cycles. The genetic diversity
among Cyanobacteria enables them to thrive across many habitats, although only a few …

In search of environmental role of cylindrospermopsin: A review on global distribution and ecology of its producers

P Rzymski, B Poniedziałek - Water Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Despite a significant interest in cyanotoxins over recent decades, their biological role is still
poorly elucidated. Cylindrospermopsin (CYN) is a cyanobacterial metabolite that is globally …

An expanded ribosomal phylogeny of cyanobacteria supports a deep placement of plastids

KR Moore, C Magnabosco, L Momper… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The phylum Cyanobacteria includes free-living bacteria and plastids, the descendants of
cyanobacteria that were engulfed by the ancestral lineage of the major photosynthetic …

Remote sensing of freshwater cyanobacteria: An extended IOP Inversion Model of Inland Waters (IIMIW) for partitioning absorption coefficient and estimating …

L Li, L Li, K Song - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
Phycocyanin primarily exists in freshwater cyanobacteria. Accurate estimation of low
phycocyanin concentration (PC) is critical for issuing an early warning of potential risks of …

Stabilizing multicellularity through ratcheting

E Libby, PL Conlin, B Kerr… - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The evolutionary transition to multicellularity probably began with the formation of simple
undifferentiated cellular groups. Such groups evolve readily in diverse lineages of extant …

Functional basis of microorganism classification

C Zhu, TO Delmont, TM Vogel… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Correctly identifying nearest “neighbors” of a given microorganism is important in industrial
and clinical applications where close relationships imply similar treatment. Microbial …