Science References and Links

Fossil Science References and Links

Cambrian Explosion References:

Brennan, S. T., Lowenstein, T. K. & Horita, J. Geology, 32, 473 - 476, doi:10.1130/G20251.1 (2004).
von Bloh, W., Bounama, C. & Franck, S. Cambrian explosion triggered by geosphere-biosphere feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 1963, doi:10.1029/2003GL017928, (2003).

Chengjiang Biota

Chen, Junyaun; Cheng, Yen-nien; Iten, H.V. 1997; The Cambrian Explosion and the Fossil Record, Bulletin Of The National Musuem of Natural Science, Taiwan, 320 pp.
Conway Morris, S. 1998, The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals, Oxford University Press 242 pp.
Gould, Stephen Jay, Wonderful Life 1989, WW Norton & Company Press, 347 pp.
Hou, Xian-Guang; Aldridge, Richard J., Bengstrom, Jan; Siveter, David J. ;Feng, Xiang-Hong 2004; The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjang, China, Blackwell Science Ltd, 233 pp.
Shu, D-G; Luo, H-L; Conway Morris, S.; Zhang X-L; Hu, S-X; Chen, L. ;Han, J.; Zhu, M.;Li, Y; Chen, L-Z 1999, Lower Cambrian Vertebrates from South China, Nature 402 pp 42-46.
Shu DG, Chen L, Han J, Zhang XL. An Early Cambrian tunicate from China. Nature. 2001 May 24;411(6836):472-3.
Shu DG, Morris SC, Han J, Chen L, Zhang XL, Zhang ZF, Liu HQ, Li Y, Liu JN. Primitive deuterostomes from the Chengjiang Lagerstatte (Lower Cambrian, China). Nature. 2001 Nov 22;414(6862):419-24.
Shu D, Morris SC, Zhang ZF, Liu JN, Han J, Chen L, Zhang XL, Yasui K, Li Y., A new species of yunnanozoan with implications for deuterostome evolution. Science. 2003 Feb 28;299(5611):1380-4.

Domains and Kingdoms of Life References:

Andrade MA, Ouzounis C, Sander C, Tamames J, Valencia A. Functional classes in the three domains of life. J Mol Evol. 1999 Nov;49(5):551-7.
Blank, c., Could Cyanobacteria have Provided the Source of Oxidants for Banded Iron Formation? 2002 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Cloud, P., Am. J. Sci. 272, 537 (1972).
Karol, K., et. al., The Closest Living Relatives of Land Plants, Science, Vol 294, Issue 5550, 2351-2353 , 14 December 2001
Knoll, A., Life on a Young Planet : The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
Olcott, A., Corsetti F, and Stanley A, A New Look at Stromatolite Form Diversity, 2002 Geological Annual Meeting, Denver, October 2002.
Evolution of the Early Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Biosphere I: Constraints from Ore Deposits, Session in the 2002 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Gupta, R. S. 1998. Protein phylogenies and signature sequences: A reappraisal of evolutionary relationships among archaebacteria, eubacteria, and eukaryotes. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 62:1435-1491.
Gupta, R. S. 1998. What are archaebacteria: Life's third domain or monoderm prokaryotes related to Gram-positive bacteria? A new proposal for the classification of prokaryotic organisms. Molecular Microbiology 29:695-707.
Olsen G, Woese C. Ribosomal RNA: a key to phylogeny. FASEB J. 1993 Jan;7(1):113-23.
Philippe, H. and P. Forterre. 1999. The rooting of the universal tree of life is not reliable. Journal of Molecular Evolution 49:509-523.
Whittaker, R.H. (1969). New concepts of kingdoms of organisms. Science 163, 150-160.
Woese, C. 1998. The universal ancestor. PNAS 95:6854-6859.
Woese, C. R., O. Kandler, and M. L. Wheelis. 1990. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. PNAS 87:4576-457
Wray, G., Dating the Origin of Animals, Science, Vol 274, Issue 5295, 1993-1997 , 20 December 1996.

Endosymbiosis References:

Evolution References:

Stromatolite References:

Anbar A, Knoll A, Proterozoic ocean chemistry and evolution: a bioinorganic bridge? Science. 2002 Aug 16;297(5584):1137-42.
Blank , C., Could Cyanobacteria have Provided the Source of Oxidants for Banded Iron Formation? 2002 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Cloud, P., Am. J. Sci. 272, 537 (1972).
Corsetti FA, Awramik SM, Pierce D, A complex microbiota from snowball Earth times: microfossils from the Neoproterozoic Kingston Peak Formation, Death Valley, USA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Apr 15;100(8):4399-404. Epub 2003 Apr 07.
Gernot Arp,* Andreas Reimer, Joachim Reitner Photosynthesis-Induced Biofilm Calcification and Calcium Concentrations in Phanerozoic Oceans, Science, Vol 292, Issue 5522, 1701-1704 , 1 June 2001.
Karol, K., et. al., The Closest Living Relatives of Land Plants, Science, Vol 294, Issue 5550, 2351-2353 , 14 December 2001
Konhauser, Kurt O., Could bacteria Form Precambrian Banded Iron Formations? 2002 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Knoll, A., End of the Proterozoic eon, Sci Am. 1991 Oct;265(4):64-73.
Knoll, A., Life on a Young Planet : The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
Olcott, A., Corsetti F, and Stanley A, A New Look at Stromatolite Form Diversity, 2002 Geological Annual Meeting, Denver, October 2002.
Evolution of the Early Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Biosphere I: Constraints from Ore Deposits, Session in the 2002 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Gupta, R. S. 1998. Protein phylogenies and signature sequences: A reappraisal of evolutionary relationships among archaebacteria, eubacteria, and eukaryotes. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 62:1435-1491.
Gupta, R. S. 1998. What are archaebacteria: Life's third domain or monoderm prokaryotes related to Gram-positive bacteria? A new proposal for the classification of prokaryotic organisms. Molecular Microbiology 29:695-707.
Martin, M, et. al., Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis, cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 September 17; 99 (19): 12246–12251.
MOREIRA, D, et. al., The origin of red algae and the evolution of chloroplasts, Nature 405, 69 - 72 (04 May 2000)
Narbonne, M., The Crucial 80% of Life's Epic, Science, Vol 301, Issue 5635, 919 , 15 August 2003.
Philippe, H. and P. Forterre. 1999. The rooting of the universal tree of life is not reliable. Journal of Molecular Evolution 49:509-523.
Schopf J., Packer B., Early Archean (3.3-billion to 3.5-billion-year-old) microfossils from Warrawoona Group, Australia, Science, 1987 Jul 3;237:70-3
SHUHAI X., et. al., Three-dimensional preservation of algae and animal embryos in a Neoproterozoic phosphorite, Nature 391, 553 - 558 (1998).
Woese, C. 1998 . The universal ancestor. PNAS 95:6854-6859.
Woese, C. R., O. Kandler, and M. L. Wheelis. 1990. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. PNAS 87:4576-457
Wray, G., Dating the Origin of Animals, Science, Vol 274, Issue 5295, 1993-1997 , 20 December 1996