Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Microalgae are one of the important components in food chains of aquatic ecosystems and
have been used for human consumption as food and as medicines. The wide diversity of …

In oxygenic photosynthetic organisms, light energy is captured by antenna systems and
transferred to photosystem II (PSII) and photosystem I (PSI) to drive photosynthesis,. The …

The Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic) was a time of global environmental changes
and possibly substantial coeval volcanism. The extent of the biological turnover in marine …

Human and ecological health depends on the vitality of freshwater systems, but these are
increasingly threatened by cyanotoxins released from harmful algal blooms (HABs). Periodic …

Marine phytoplankton blooms are annual spring events that sustain active and diverse
bloom-associated bacterial populations. Blooms vary considerably in terms of eukaryotic …

Diatoms rely on fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding proteins (FCPs) for their great success
in oceans, which have a great diversity in their pigment, protein compositions, and subunit …

The Cryogenian Sturtian and Marinoan Snowball Earth glaciations bracket a nonglacial
interval during which Demosponge and green-algal biomarkers first appear. To understand …

Carbon fluxes in subduction zones can be better constrained by including new estimates of
carbon concentration in subducting mantle peridotites, consideration of carbonate solubility …

Oxidative stress results from an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen
species and the antioxidants defences, in favour of the former. In recent years, the …