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Earth's First Redox Revolution

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Improved methods for isolating and validating indigenous biomarkers in Precambrian rocks

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Diversity in the Archean Biosphere: New Insights from NanoSIMS

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Protein Domain Structure Uncovers the Origin of Aerobic Metabolism and the Rise of Planetary Oxygen

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Airborne hydrocarbon contamination from laboratory atmospheres

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Biomarkers: Informative Molecules for Studies in Geobiology

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Proterozoic Atmospheric Oxygen

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Reconstructing Deep-Time Biology with Molecular Fossils

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Geobiology of the Proterozoic Eon

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Fe isotopes of a 2.4 Ga hematite-rich IF constrain marine redox conditions around the GOE

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Microbes and the Fossil Record: Selected Topics in Paleomicrobiology

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Identification of 24-n-propylidenecholesterol in a member of the Foraminifera

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The Great Oxidation Event: An Expert Discussion on the Causes, the Processes, and the Still Unknowns

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Organic Geochemical Signatures of Early Life on Earth

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Tubular microfossils from ∼2.8 to 2.7Ga-old lacustrine deposits of South Africa: A sign for early origin of eukaryotes?

Kaźmierczak, J., Kremer, B., Altermann, W., & Franchi, I. A. (2016) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2016.10.001 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Diversity of cyanobacterial biomarker genes from the stromatolites of Shark Bay, Western Australia

Garby, T. J., Walter, M. R., Larkum, A. W. D., & Neilan, B. A. (2012) · Environmental Microbiology · doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02809.x · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Anaerobic 3-methylhopanoid production by an acidophilic photosynthetic purple bacterium

Mayer, M. H., Parenteau, M. N., Kempher, M. L., Madigan, M. T., Jahnke, L. L., & Welander, P. V. (2021) · Archives of Microbiology · doi:10.1007/s00203-021-02561-7 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

Microbes and the rise of oxygen

Czaja, A. D. (2010) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/ngeo929 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

A southern African perspective on the co-evolution of early life and environments

Hickman‐Lewis, K., & Westall, F. (2021) · South African Journal of Geology · doi:10.25131/sajg.124.0016 · Cited by 15 · see citing works

A reconstruction of Archean biological diversity based on molecular fossils from the 2.78 to 2.45 billion-year-old Mount Bruce Supergroup, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia

Brocks, J. J., Buick, R., Summons, R. E., & Logan, G. A. (2003) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/s0016-7037(03)00209-6 · Cited by 306 · see citing works

Archean Molecular Fossils and the Early Rise of Eukaryotes

Brocks, J. J., Logan, G. A., Buick, R., & Summons, R. E. (1999) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.285.5430.1033 · Cited by 1,275 · see citing works

Molecular Fossil Evidence of Archaea and a Deep Biosphere during the Late Archean

Ventura, G. T., Kenig, F., Reddy, C. M., Schieber, J., Nelson, R. K., Frysinger, G. S., Gaines, R. B., & Schaeffer, P. (2006) · AGUFM

Modern Subsurface Bacteria in Pristine 2.7 Ga-Old Fossil Stromatolite Drillcore Samples from the Fortescue Group, Western Australia

Gérard, E., Moreira, D., Philippot, P., Kranendonk, M. J. V., & López‐García, P. (2009) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005298 · Cited by 31 · see citing works

Modern Subsurface Bacteria in Pristine 2.7 Ga-Old Fossil

Drillcore, S., Moreira, D., & Kranendonk, M. J. V. (2016)