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List of works by Erik Sperling

A basin redox transect at the dawn of animal life

A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change

scientific article

A molecular palaeobiological hypothesis for the origin of aplacophoran molluscs and their derivation from chiton-like ancestors

scientific article (publication date: 7 April 2012)

A placozoan affinity for Dickinsonia and the evolution of late Proterozoic metazoan feeding modes

scientific article

A prolonged, two-step oxygenation of Earth's early atmosphere: Support from confidence intervals

scientific article

Biodiversity response to natural gradients of multiple stressors on continental margins.

scientific article published in April 2016

Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota

scientific article

Calibrating the coevolution of Ediacaran life and environment

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Decreasing Phanerozoic extinction intensity as a consequence of Earth surface oxygenation and metazoan ecophysiology

scientific article

Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals

article

Ediacaran reorganization of the marine phosphorus cycle

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Extending the record of the Lomagundi–Jatuli carbon isotope excursion in the Labrador Trough, Canada

scientific article

Iron isotope biogeochemistry of Neoproterozoic marine shales

scholarly article

Mesoproterozoic paleo-redox changes during 1500–1400 Ma in the Yanshan Basin, North China

scientific article

MicroRNAs resolve an apparent conflict between annelid systematics and their fossil record

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2009)

MicroRNAs support a turtle + lizard clade ⬇️

scientific article

Molecular paleobiological insights into the origin of the Brachiopoda ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

New insights on the Orosirian carbon cycle, early Cyanobacteria, and the assembly of Laurentia from the Paleoproterozoic Belcher Group

scientific article published in August 2019

On the co-evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

On the edge of exceptional preservation: insights into the role of redox state in Burgess Shale-type taphonomic windows from the Mural Formation, Alberta, Canada

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Oxygen and animals in Earth history

scientific article (publication date: 18 March 2014)

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

scientific article

Oxygen, temperature and the deep-marine stenothermal cradle of Ediacaran evolution

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Oxygenated Mesoproterozoic lake revealed through magnetic mineralogy

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

Persistent global marine euxinia in the early Silurian

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

Phylogenetic-signal dissection of nuclear housekeeping genes supports the paraphyly of sponges and the monophyly of Eumetazoa.

scientific article published on 13 July 2009

Poriferan ANTP genes: primitively simple or secondarily reduced?

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Reconstruction of family-level phylogenetic relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) using nuclear encoded housekeeping genes

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Sedimentology, chemostratigraphy, and stromatolites of lower Paleoproterozoic carbonates, Turee Creek Group, Western Australia

article

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

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

scientific article

Statistical inference and reproducibility in geobiology

scientific article published on 12 February 2019

Temperature-dependent hypoxia explains biogeography and severity of end-Permian marine mass extinction

scientific article published in Science

Thallium isotope ratios in shales from South China and northwestern Canada suggest widespread O2 accumulation in marine bottom waters was an uncommon occurrence during the Ediacaran Period

scholarly article

The Cambrian conundrum: early divergence and later ecological success in the early history of animals

scientific article

The Road River Group of northern Yukon, Canada: early Paleozoic deep-water sedimentation within the Great American Carbonate Bank

scientific article

The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project

scientific article published in November 2021

The Temporal and Environmental Context of Early Animal Evolution: Considering All the Ingredients of an “Explosion”

The complete mitochondrial genome of the verongid sponge Aplysina cauliformis: implications for DNA barcoding in demosponges

scientific article published on 05 October 2011

The deep evolution of metazoan microRNAs

scientific article

The identification of microRNAs in calcisponges: independent evolution of microRNAs in basal metazoans

scientific article

The mitochondrial genome of the hexactinellid sponge Aphrocallistes vastus: evidence for programmed translational frameshifting

scientific article

The stratigraphic relationship between the Shuram carbon isotope excursion, the oxygenation of Neoproterozoic oceans, and the first appearance of the Ediacara biota and bilaterian trace fossils in northwestern Canada

scholarly article

Tracking the onset of Phanerozoic-style redox-sensitive trace metal enrichments: New results from basal Ediacaran post-glacial strata in NW Canada

scholarly article

Variable redox conditions as an evolutionary driver? A multi-basin comparison of redox in the middle and later Cambrian oceans (Drumian-Paibian)

scientific article published in March 2021

miRNAs: small genes with big potential in metazoan phylogenetics

scientific article

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