ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2018
Ancient steroids establish the Ediacaran fossil
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The evolutionary conservation of eukaryotic membrane-bound adenylyl cyclase isoforms.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Pooled it
- The secret life of RNA and lipids.RNA biology · 2025Review
- The terminal Ediacaran Tongshan Lagerstätte from South China.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Evolution of Sensory Receptors.Annual review of cell and developmental biology · 2024Review
- A new non-destructive method to decipher the origin of organic matter in fossils using Raman spectroscopy.RSC advances · 2024Article
- Proterozoic microfossils continue to provide new insights into the rise of complex eukaryotic life.Royal Society open science · 2024Review
- A mathematical description of fossilization.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
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- Common origin of sterol biosynthesis points to a feeding strategy shift in Neoproterozoic animals.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Sterol methyltransferases in uncultured bacteria complicate eukaryotic biomarker interpretations.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Lifting the veil on the oldest-known animals.Nature · 2022Article
- Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation throughout the Ediacaran period.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- The Enclosed Intestinal Microbiome: Semiochemical Signals from the Precambrian and Their Disruption by Heavy Metal Pollution.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Dawn of complex animal food webs: A new predatory anthozoan (Cnidaria) from Cambrian.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2022Article
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- Why Should Natural Principles Be Simple?Philosophia (Ramat-Gan, Israel) · 2022Article
- Ediacara growing pains: Modular addition and development inPaleobiology · 2022Article
- A revised lower estimate of ozone columns during Earth's oxygenated history.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- The tempo of Ediacaran evolution.Science advances · 2021Article
- The developmental biology ofScience advances · 2021Article
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Abstract
The enigmatic Ediacara biota (571 million to 541 million years ago) represents the first macroscopic complex organisms in the geological record and may hold the key to our understanding of the origin of animals. Ediacaran macrofossils are as "strange as life on another planet" and have evaded taxonomic classification, with interpretations ranging from marine animals or giant single-celled protists to terrestrial lichens. Here, we show that lipid biomarkers extracted from organically preserved Ediacaran macrofossils unambiguously clarify their phylogeny.
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