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- Title
Unravelling ancient microbial history with community proteogenomics and lipid geochemistry.
- Authors
Brocks, Jochen J.; Banfield, Jillian
- Abstract
Our window into the Earth's ancient microbial past is narrow and obscured by missing data. However, we can glean information about ancient microbial ecosystems using fossil lipids (biomarkers) that are extracted from billion-year-old sedimentary rocks. In this Opinion article, we describe how environmental genomics and related methodologies will give molecular fossil research a boost, by increasing our knowledge about how evolutionary innovations in microorganisms have changed the surface of planet Earth.
- Subjects
LIPIDS; MICROORGANISMS; GENOMICS; BIOTIC communities; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY rocks; GEOCHEMISTRY
- Publication
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009, Vol 7, Issue 8, p601
- ISSN
1740-1526
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrmicro2167