ArticleNature communications2021
Cryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran Period.
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- Mid-latitudinal habitable environment for marine eukaryotes during the waning stage of the Marinoan snowball glaciation.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Animal survival strategies in Neoproterozoic ice worlds.Global change biology · 2023Article
- Genomic diversification of the specialized parasite of the fungus-growing ant symbiosis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Yeasts Inhabiting Extreme Environments and Their Biotechnological Applications.Microorganisms · 2022Review
- Fungi as mediators linking organisms and ecosystems.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2022Review
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Abstract
The colonization of land by fungi had a significant impact on the terrestrial ecosystem and biogeochemical cycles on Earth surface systems. Although fungi may have diverged ~1500-900 million years ago (Ma) or even as early as 2400 Ma, it is uncertain when fungi first colonized the land. Here we report pyritized fungus-like microfossils preserved in the basal Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (~635 Ma) in South China. These micro-organisms colonized and were preserved in cryptic karstic cavities formed via meteoric water dissolution related to deglacial isostatic rebound after the terminal Cryogenian snowball Earth event. They are interpreted as eukaryotes and probable fungi, thus providing direct fossil evidence for the colonization of land by fungi and offering a key constraint on fungal terrestrialization.
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