Foundations for reconstructing early microbial life
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| author | Kacar, Betul |
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| contents | For more than 3.5 billion years, life experienced dramatic environmental extremes on Earth. These include shifts from oxygen-less to over-oxygenated atmospheres and cycling between hothouse conditions and global glaciations. Meanwhile, an ecological revolution took place. The planet evolved from one dominated by microbial life to one containing the plants and animals that are most familiar today. The activities of many key cellular inventions evolved early in the history of life, collectively defining the nature of our biosphere and underpinning human survival. There is a critical need for a new disciplinary synthesis to reveal how microbes and their molecular systems survived ever changing global conditions over deep time. This review critically examines our current understanding of early microbial life and describes the foundations of an emerging area in microbiology and evolutionary synthetic biology to reconstruct the earliest microbial innovations. |
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| spellingShingle | Foundations for reconstructing early microbial life Kacar, Betul Populations and Evolution For more than 3.5 billion years, life experienced dramatic environmental extremes on Earth. These include shifts from oxygen-less to over-oxygenated atmospheres and cycling between hothouse conditions and global glaciations. Meanwhile, an ecological revolution took place. The planet evolved from one dominated by microbial life to one containing the plants and animals that are most familiar today. The activities of many key cellular inventions evolved early in the history of life, collectively defining the nature of our biosphere and underpinning human survival. There is a critical need for a new disciplinary synthesis to reveal how microbes and their molecular systems survived ever changing global conditions over deep time. This review critically examines our current understanding of early microbial life and describes the foundations of an emerging area in microbiology and evolutionary synthetic biology to reconstruct the earliest microbial innovations. |
| title | Foundations for reconstructing early microbial life |
| topic | Populations and Evolution |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09354 |