Unravelling ancient microbial history with community proteogenomics and lipid geochemistry

Jochen J. Brocks; Jillian Banfield

doi:10.1038/nrmicro2167

Unravelling ancient microbial history with community proteogenomics and lipid geochemistry

Jochen J. Brocks^*, Jillian Banfield

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	601-609
Number of pages	9
Journal	Nature Reviews Microbiology
Volume	7
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2167
Publication status	Published - 2009

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