Review and analysis of scientific research and theory bearing on knowledge of Earth’s protogeobiosphere, origins and evolution of protobiont complexity, and emergence of life in the cosmos.

​Fournier, G.P., K.R. Moore, L.T. Rangel, J.G. Payette, L. Momper, T. Bosak 2021. The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages. Proc. R. Soc. B. 288: 20210675.

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Johnson, V.M., H.B. Pakrasi 2022. Advances in the understanding of the lifecycle of photosystem II. Microorganisms 10:836.

 

Muh, F., A. Zouni 2020. Structural basis of light-harvesting in the photosystem II
core complex. Protein Sci. 2020;29:1090–1119.

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Oliver, T., P. Sanchez-Barcaldo, A.W. Karkum, A.W. Rutherford, T. Cardona 2021. Time-resolved comparative molecular evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. Bioenergetics 1862: 148400.

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Rahmatpour, N., D.A. Hauser, J.M. Nelson, P.Y. Chen, J.C. Villarreal, M.Y. Ho, F.W. Li 2021. A novel thylakoid-less isolate fills a billion-year gap in the evolution of cyanobacteria. Curr. Biol. 31: 2857-2867.

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