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List of works by Jochen J. Brocks

1.1-billion-year-old porphyrins establish a marine ecosystem dominated by bacterial primary producers

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

A framework for the extraction and interpretation of organic molecules in speleothem carbonate

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A reconstruction of Archean biological diversity based on molecular fossils from the 2.78 to 2.45 billion-year-old Mount Bruce Supergroup, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia

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Algal origin of sponge sterane biomarkers negates the oldest evidence for animals in the rock record

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Archean Molecular Fossils and the Early Rise of Eukaryotes

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Biogeochemistry: Early animals out in the cold

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Biomarker evidence for green and purple sulphur bacteria in a stratified Palaeoproterozoic sea.

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Characterisation of the major dust storm that traversed over eastern Australia in September 2009; a multidisciplinary approach

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Comparison of , and LDI temperature proxies for reconstruction of south-east Australian ocean temperatures

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Composition and syngeneity of molecular fossils from the 2.78 to 2.45 billion-year-old Mount Bruce Supergroup, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

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Cryogenian evolution of stigmasteroid biosynthesis.

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

De novo metagenomic assembly reveals abundant novel major lineage of Archaea in hypersaline microbial communities

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De novo sequences of Haloquadratum walsbyi from Lake Tyrrell, Australia, reveal a variable genomic landscape.

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Discovery of the oldest known biomarkers provides evidence for phototrophic bacteria in the 1.73 Ga Wollogorang Formation, Australia

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

Early sponges and toxic protists: possible sources of cryostane, an age diagnostic biomarker antedating Sturtian Snowball Earth

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

Food sources for the Ediacara biota communities

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Geological alteration of Precambrian steroids mimics early animal signatures

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Intracellular bound chlorophyll residues identify 1 Gyr-old fossils as eukaryotic algae

scientific article published on 10 January 2022

Local paleoenvironmental controls on the carbon-isotope record defining the Bitter Springs Anomaly.

scientific article published on 8 October 2016

Metagenomic and lipid analyses reveal a diel cycle in a hypersaline microbial ecosystem

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Microbial assemblage and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the 1.38 Ga Velkerri Formation, McArthur Basin, northern Australia

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Molecular fossils from organically preserved Ediacara biota reveal cyanobacterial origin for Beltanelliformis

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Origin and significance of aromatic hydrocarbons in giant iron ore deposits of the late Archean Hamersley Basin, Western Australia

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Paleoecology of Neoproterozoic hypersaline environments: Biomarker evidence for haloarchaea, methanogens, and cyanobacteria.

scientific article published on 10 July 2017

Phylogenetic and biochemical evidence for sterol synthesis in the bacterium Gemmata obscuriglobus

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Putative sponge biomarkers in unicellular Rhizaria question an early rise of animals

scientific article published on 4 March 2019

Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

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Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

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Reply to: Sources of C30 steroid biomarkers in Neoproterozoic-Cambrian rocks and oils

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Simple sediment rheology explains the Ediacara biota preservation

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology.

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Sporulenes, heptaprenyl metabolites from Bacillus subtilis spores

scientific article published on 17 July 2008

Tailing of chromatographic peaks in GC-MS caused by interaction of halogenated solvents with the ion source

scientific article

The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project

scientific article published in November 2021

The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals.

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Unravelling ancient microbial history with community proteogenomics and lipid geochemistry.

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