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SUBMITTER: Demoulin CF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6880289 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Demoulin Catherine F CF Lara Yannick J YJ Cornet Luc L François Camille C Baurain Denis D Wilmotte Annick A Javaux Emmanuelle J EJ
Free radical biology & medicine 20190509
Cyanobacteria played an important role in the evolution of Early Earth and the biosphere. They are responsible for the oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans since the Great Oxidation Event around 2.4 Ga, debatably earlier. They are also major primary producers in past and present oceans, and the ancestors of the chloroplast. Nevertheless, the identification of cyanobacteria in the early fossil record remains ambiguous because the morphological criteria commonly used are not always reliable fo ...[more]