Marine natural products

JW Blunt, AR Carroll, BR Copp, RA Davis… - Natural product …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2016. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2017, 34, 235–294 This review covers the
literature published in 2016 for marine natural products (MNPs), with 757 citations (643 for …

The origin of animals: can molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled?

JA Cunningham, AG Liu, S Bengtson… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary emergence of animals is one of the most significant episodes in the history
of life, but its timing remains poorly constrained. Molecular clocks estimate that animals …

Ancient steroids establish the Ediacaran fossil Dickinsonia as one of the earliest animals

I Bobrovskiy, JM Hope, A Ivantsov, BJ Nettersheim… - Science, 2018 - science.org
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 …

Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data

M Dohrmann, G Wörheide - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Information about the geological timeframe during which animals radiated into their
major subclades is crucial to understanding early animal ecology and evolution …

A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte

Q Tang, K Pang, X Yuan, S **ao - Nature ecology & evolution, 2020 - nature.com
Chlorophytes (representing a clade within the Viridiplantae and a sister group of the
Streptophyta) probably dominated marine export bioproductivity and played a key role in …

Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals

JA Zumberge, GD Love, P Cárdenas… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Sterane biomarkers preserved in ancient sedimentary rocks hold promise for tracking the
diversification and ecological expansion of eukaryotes. The earliest proposed animal …

Early sponge evolution: a review and phylogenetic framework

JP Botting, LA Muir - Palaeoworld, 2018 - Elsevier
Sponges are one of the critical groups in understanding the early evolution of animals.
Traditional views of these relationships are currently being challenged by molecular data …

The temporal and environmental context of early animal evolution: Considering all the ingredients of an “explosion”

EA Sperling, RG Stockey - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Animals originated and evolved during a unique time in Earth history—the Neoproterozoic
Era. This paper aims to discuss (1) when landmark events in early animal evolution …

Bioprinting in microgravity

M Rezapour Sarabi, AK Yetisen… - … Biomaterials Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bioprinting as an extension of 3D printing offers capabilities for printing tissues and organs
for application in biomedical engineering. Conducting bioprinting in space, where the gravity …