This review covers the literature published between January and December in 2018 for
marine natural products (MNPs), with 717 citations (706 for the period January to December …

The long history of life on Earth has unfolded as a cause-and-effect relationship with the
evolving amount of oxygen (O2) in the oceans and atmosphere. Oxygen deficiency …

Chlorophytes (representing a clade within the Viridiplantae and a sister group of the
Streptophyta) probably dominated marine export bioproductivity and played a key role in …

The role of O2 in the evolution of early animals, as represented by some members of the
Ediacara biota, has been heavily debated because current geochemical evidence paints a …

The emergence and diversification of early animals is commonly thought to have coincided
with atmosphere and ocean oxygenation across the terminal Neoproterozoic and early …

Abstract The Cambrian Explosion by nature is a three-phased explosion of animal body
plans alongside episodic biomineralization, pulsed change of generic diversity, body size …

Bacterial specialized metabolites are increasingly recognized as important factors in animal–
microbiome interactions: for example, by providing the host with chemical defenses. Even in …

Two hypotheses for the early radiation of the metazoans are vividly discussed in recent
phylogenomic studies, the 'Porifera-first'hypothesis, which places the poriferans as the sister …

Studies of alkaline lakes have critical biological–environmental–economic properties, but
deep-time alkaline lakes are challenging to investigate. Lipid biomarkers can provide …

The earliest fossils of animal-like organisms occur in Ediacaran rocks that are approximately
571 million years old. Yet 24-isopropylcholestanes and other C30 fossil sterol molecules …