[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 …

The biogeochemistry of ferruginous lakes and past ferruginous oceans

ED Swanner, N Lambrecht, C Wittkop, C Harding… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Anoxic and iron-rich (ferruginous) conditions prevailed in the ocean under the low-oxygen
atmosphere that occurred through most of the Archean Eon. While euxinic conditions (ie …

[HTML][HTML] Recurrent photic zone euxinia limited ocean oxygenation and animal evolution during the Ediacaran

W Zheng, A Zhou, SK Sahoo, MR Nolan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Ediacaran Period (~ 635–539 Ma) is marked by the emergence and
diversification of complex metazoans linked to ocean redox changes, but the processes and …

[HTML][HTML] The Great Oxygenation Event as a consequence of ecological dynamics modulated by planetary change

J Olejarz, Y Iwasa, AH Knoll, MA Nowak - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Great Oxygenation Event (GOE), ca. 2.4 billion years ago, transformed life and
environments on Earth. Its causes, however, are debated. We mathematically analyze the …

[HTML][HTML] Possible link between Earth's rotation rate and oxygenation

JM Klatt, A Chennu, BK Arbic, BA Biddanda… - Nature Geoscience, 2021 - nature.com
The biotic and abiotic controls on major shifts in atmospheric oxygen and the persistence of
low-oxygen periods over a majority of Earth's history remain under debate. Explanations of …

[HTML][HTML] Bioactive metabolites produced by cyanobacteria for growth adaptation and their pharmacological properties

P Nandagopal, AN Steven, LW Chan, Z Rahmat… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cyanobacteria are known as oxygenic microorganisms are able to release
oxygen as a byproduct during photosynthesis. Rapidly changing environmental conditions …

[HTML][HTML] Abundant taxa and favorable pathways in the microbiome of soda-saline lakes in Inner Mongolia

D Zhao, S Zhang, Q Xue, J Chen, J Zhou… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Soda-saline lakes are a special type of alkaline lake in which the chloride concentration is
greater than the carbonate/bicarbonate concentration. Due to the high pH and a usually …

[HTML][HTML] The trouble with oxygen: The ecophysiology of extant phototrophs and implications for the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis

TL Hamilton - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability to harvest light to drive chemical reactions and gain energy provided microbes
access to high energy electron donors which fueled primary productivity, biogeochemical …

Synthetic algocyanobacterial consortium as an alternative to chemical fertilizers

AK Sadvakasova, MO Bauenova, BD Kossalbayev… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of unregulated pesticides and chemical fertilizers can have detrimental effects on
biodiversity and human health. This problem is exacerbated by the growing demand for …

[HTML][HTML] Community structure of thermophilic photosynthetic microbial mats and flocs at Sembawang Hot Spring, Singapore

C George, CXQ Lim, Y Tong, SB Pointing - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Sembawang Hot Spring in Singapore lies at the foot of a major regional geological
feature called the Bentong-Raub Suture Zone. Amid an extensively managed surface …