Nature Communications (Jan 2019)
Bisnorgammacerane traces predatory pressure and the persistent rise of algal ecosystems after Snowball Earth
- Lennart M. van Maldegem,
- Pierre Sansjofre,
- Johan W. H. Weijers,
- Klaus Wolkenstein,
- Paul K. Strother,
- Lars Wörmer,
- Jens Hefter,
- Benjamin J. Nettersheim,
- Yosuke Hoshino,
- Stefan Schouten,
- Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté,
- Nilamoni Nath,
- Christian Griesinger,
- Nikolay B. Kuznetsov,
- Marcel Elie,
- Marcus Elvert,
- Erik Tegelaar,
- Gerd Gleixner,
- Christian Hallmann
Affiliations
- Lennart M. van Maldegem
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Pierre Sansjofre
- Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
- Johan W. H. Weijers
- Shell Global Solutions International B.V.
- Klaus Wolkenstein
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- Paul K. Strother
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College
- Lars Wörmer
- MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
- Jens Hefter
- Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
- Benjamin J. Nettersheim
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Yosuke Hoshino
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Stefan Schouten
- Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University
- Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
- Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University
- Nilamoni Nath
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- Christian Griesinger
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- Nikolay B. Kuznetsov
- Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Marcel Elie
- Petroleum Development Oman (PDO)
- Marcus Elvert
- MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
- Erik Tegelaar
- Shell Global Solutions International B.V.
- Gerd Gleixner
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Christian Hallmann
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08306-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
It remains unclear when and why the world’s oceans, once largely occupied by bacteria, became dominated by photosynthetic algae. Here, using fossil lipids in million year old rocks, the authors show that predation after the Snowball Earth glaciations created the opportunity for a global shift to algal ecosystems.
