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Cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event: evidence from genes and fossils.
Paper summary
Combines phylogenetic and fossil evidence to investigate cyanobacterial origins and diversification around Earth's oxygenation. It discusses early multicellularity and why oxygen production could precede atmospheric oxygen accumulation.
Relevance to the project
Illustrates delayed environment feedback and interactions between biological activity and environmental sinks. Historical evidence helps motivate multiple causal timescales.
Dates and evolutionary reconstructions carry method-dependent uncertainty.
Source record
- Reference ID
- pmc-pmc4755140
- Archived version
- Europe PMC hosted article; publication/manuscript status is specified in source XML
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/pmc-pmc4755140/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.