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ArticleNature2024

Oldest thylakoids in fossil cells directly evidence oxygenic photosynthesis.

Catherine F Demoulin, Yannick J Lara, Alexandre Lambion, Emmanuelle J Javaux

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Chiral gliding: Right-handed navigation of filamentous cyanobacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. Organic geochemical evidence for life in Archean rocks identified by pyrolysis-GC-MS and supervised machine learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. A diverse Palaeoproterozoic microbial ecosystem implies early eukaryogenesis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  5. The chitin raft hypothesis for the colonization of the open ocean by cyanobacteria.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Catherine F DemoulinEarly Life Traces & Evolution-Astrobiology, UR Astrobiology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. cdemoulin@uliege.be.ORCID 0009-0004-9587-8736
Yannick J LaraEarly Life Traces & Evolution-Astrobiology, UR Astrobiology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-4444-0767
Alexandre LambionEarly Life Traces & Evolution-Astrobiology, UR Astrobiology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Emmanuelle J JavauxEarly Life Traces & Evolution-Astrobiology, UR Astrobiology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. ej.javaux@uliege.be.ORCID 0000-0002-5272-7610
University of Liège · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Today oxygenic photosynthesis is unique to cyanobacteria and their plastid relatives within eukaryotes. Although its origin before the Great Oxidation Event is still debated

Indexed as

CyanobacteriaFossilsOxygenPhotosynthesisThylakoidsBiological EvolutionEcosystemEvolution, ChemicalOrigin of LifeOxidation-ReductionOxygen

Identifiers

PMID38172638
OpenAlexW4390546860

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