Suntsov, V. V.
Published in
Contemporary Problems of Ecology
Two physical and climatic factors that were distant and recent prerequisites and a transformation trigger for a clone of the ancestral pseudotuberculous microbe Yersinia pseudotuberculosis O:1b (the causative agent of the Far East scarlet-like fever (FESLF)) into a population of the plague microbe derivative Y. pestis are considered. One remote pre...
Waldeck, Anna R Hemingway, Jordon D Yao, Weiqi Paytan, Adina Johnston, David T
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The triple oxygen isotope composition (Δ'17O) of sulfate minerals is widely used to constrain ancient atmospheric pO2/pCO2 and rates of gross primary production. The utility of this tool is based on a model that sulfate oxygen carries an isotope fingerprint of tropospheric O2 incorporated through oxidative weathering of reduced sulfur minerals, par...
Zhang, Fei Dellinger, Mathieu Hilton, Robert G. Yu, Jimin Allen, Mark B. Densmore, Alexander L. Sun, Hui Jin, Zhangdong
Published in
Nature Communications
From modern seasonal to the deep time, global data show that continental hydrology has a direct and consistent effect on river and marine Li isotope compositions, highlighting a crucial role of climate on Earth’s weathering and the carbon cycle.
villalobos-segura;, eduardo
Elasmobranchii are relatively well-studied. However, numerous phylogenetic uncertainties about their relationships remain. Here, we revisit the phylogenetic evidence based on a detailed morphological re-evaluation of all the major extant batomorph clades (skates and rays), including several holomorphic fossil taxa from the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and ...
Brownstein, Chase Doran
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background The consequences of the K-Pg mass extinction are reflected across present biodiversity, but many faunas that appeared immediately after the extinction event were very different from current ones. Choristodera is a clade of reptiles of uncertain phylogenetic placement that have an extremely poor fossil record throughout their 150-million-...
Yang, Yibo Han, Wenxia Ye, Chengcheng Galy, Albert Fang, Xiaomin
Published in
Frontiers in Earth Science
The relationship between silicate weathering, Tibetan Plateau uplift, and global cooling during the Cenozoic provides a valuable case study for understanding the interaction of tectonics and climate. The Tibetan Plateau uplift is considered to have caused Cenozoic cooling via the atmospheric CO2 drawdown by increased silicate weathering. However, t...
Zhang, Ran Zhang, Zhongshi Jiang, Dabang Ramstein, Gilles Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume Li, Xiangyu
The evolution of central Asian drylands during the Cenozoic is a hot topic in paleoclimate research, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we investigate this topic with climate modeling based on six key geological periods. Our results indicate that central Asian drylands have existed since the early Eocene, after which they move nort...
Vetrov, E. V. De Grave, Johan Vetrova, N. I.
The Tannuola Terrane of Tuva, which is located in the northern part of the Central Asian Fold Belt, formed as a result of island-arc and accretionary-collision events in the Early Paleozoic. Further tectonic evolution of the terrane is related to a multiple reactivations of large and mostly normal fault structures. In the middle Paleozoic, the exte...
Hybertsen, Frida
The deep ocean has fascinated researchers for centuries with discoveries of new ecosystems and species, yet there are still many biogeographic and evolutionary questions unanswered. Along active and passive tectonic margins, specialized ecologies thrive in a symbiosis between chemosynthesizing bacteria and their host animals. This specialized fauna...
ORTIZ, Alexandre Guillocheau, François Robin, Cécile Lasseur, Eric Briais, Justine Fillon, Charlotte
Sediment accumulation rates in foreland basins results from a complex interplay between surface and deep processes in both the exhumed relief domain and sedimentary basins. The growth and decay of a mountain belt during orogenic and post-orogenic phases have been largely studied thanks to thermochronological and structural studies. The sedimentary ...
