M. A Fedonkin, Publications relating to IGCP493
2006
1. Fedonkin M.A. 2006. Eukaryiotization of ancient biosphere: factors and succession of
events. 52nd Session of the Paleontological Society: Modern paleontology: classical and
non-traditional. Abstracts. St. Petersburg. 3-7 April 2006. P. 126-128. (In Russian).
2. Fedonkin M.A. 2006. Transition metals, enzymes, and rise of the biological complexity
in the early biosphere. In: Ancient Life and Modern Approaches. Abstracts of the Second
International Palaeontological Congress, June 17-21, 2006, Beijing, China. (Qun Yang,
Yongdong Wang, and Elizabeth A. Weldon, eds.) University of Science and Technology
of China Press. P. 25-26.
3. Fedonkin M.A. 2006. Ediacaran (Vendian) radiation of marine biota: palaeoecological
and stratigraphic implications. In: Ancient Life and Modern Approaches. Abstracts of the
Second International Palaeontological Congress, June 17-21, 2006, Beijing, China. (Qun
Yang, Yongdong Wang, and Elizabeth A. Weldon, eds.) University of Science and
Technology of China Press. P. 278.
4. Fedonkin M.A. 2006. Availability of transition metals as a key factor of an origin and
evolution of life. Symposium on the Origin of Life, International Conference on the
Molecular Photonics, Saint- Petersburg, Russia, June 28 – July 4, 2006. Abstracts.
5. Fedonkin M.A. 2006. Two records of life: experience of comparison (paleobiology and
genomics on the early stages of the biosphere evolution). In: A.M.Pystin (ed.)Problems of
geology and mineralogy, , 448 pp. Syktyvkar, Geoprint, p. 331-350. (In Russian)/
6. Sokolov B.S. and Fedonkin M.A. 2006. The Vendian System (Period). Large Russian
Encyclopedia, volume 5, Moscow, p. 103-104.
2007
7. Fedonkin M.A., Gehling J.G., Grey K., Narbonne G.M., Vickers-Rich P. 2007. The Rise
of Animals. Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. John Hopkins
Press. (344 pages, 677 color illustrations and 6-page gatefold).
8. Fedonkin M.A., Simonetta A., and Ivantsov A.I. 2007. New data on Kimberella, the
Vendian mollusc-like organism (White Sea region, Russia): paleoecological and
evolutionary implications. In: Vickers- Rich P. and P. Komarower (Eds.) “Rise and Fall
of the Vendian Biota”, Geological Society of London, Special Volume 286. P. 157-179.
9. Fedonkin M.A. and Ivantsov A.I. 2007. Ventogyrus, a possible siphonophore-like
trilobozoan coelenterate from the Vendian Sequence (late Neoproterozoic), northern
Russia. In: Vickers- Rich P. and P. Komarower (Eds.) “Rise and Fall of the Vendian
Biota”, Geological Society of London, Special Volume 286. P. 187-194.
10. Hengeveld R. and M.A. Fedonkin, 2007. Bootstrapping the energy flow in the beginning
of life. Acta Biotheoretica, vol. 55, p. 181 -226.
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11. Fedonkin M.A.. 2007. The birth of the music of life – Hard Rock or Heavy Metal? In:
“Mineralogy and Life: origin of biosphere and coevolution of the mineral and biological
realms, biomineralization”. Transaction of the Fourth International Symposium, May 2125, 2007, Syktyvkar, Geoprint, p. 331-350. (In Russian)
12. Sergeev V.N., Semikhatov M.A., Fedonkin M.A., Weiss A.F., Vorobyeva N.G. 2007.
Principal stages in evolution of Precambrian organic world: Communication 1. Archean
and Early Proterozoic. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, vol. 15, Number 2, p.
141-160.
13. Fedonkin M. A. 2007. Hydrogen fuel and metal catalysts as the key factors of the
biogenesis on early Earth. International Symposium “Origin and Evolution of Biosphere
and Photonics of Nucleic Acids”, 6-10 August 2007, Terskol. Abstracts. P. 25.
14. Hengeveld R. and Fedonkin M.A. 2007. Life starting up: the quest for a mechanism. II
International Conference “Biosphere Origin and Evolution”, October 28 – November 2,
2007, Loutraki, Greece. Abstracts.
15. Fedonkin M. A. 2007. Metal catalysts and hydrogen in the initiation of life. II
International Conference “Biosphere Origin and Evolution”, October 28 – November 2,
2007, Loutraki, Greece. Abstracts.
16. Fedonkin M. A., Ivantsov A. Yu., Leonov M. V., Serezhnikova E. A. 2007. The Vendian
biodiversity changes: a view from the White Sea. II International Conference “Biosphere
Origin and Evolution”, October 28 – November 2, 2007, Loutraki, Greece. Abstracts.
17. Fedonkin M.A. 2007. Early Eukaryotization of Life: Environmental Driving Forces of
Evolution (With Special Attention to the Metal Biocatalysts). In: International
Symposium on The Origin and Evolution of Natural Diversity, October 1-5, 2007,
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Abstracts, p. 10-11.
18. Fedonkin M.A., Ivantsov A.I., Leonov M.V., Serezhnikova E.A. 2007. Dynamics of
evolution and biodiversity in late Vendian: a view from the White Sea. In: Semikhatov
M.A. (Ed.). The Rise and Fall of the Vendian (Ediacaran) Biota. Origin of Modern
Biosphere. Proceedings of the International Symposium (IGCP Project 493). Moscow,
GEOS, p. 6-9.
19. Fedonkin M.A., Sokolov B.S., Semikhatov M.A., Chumakov N.M., 2007. Vendian
versus Ediacaran: priorities, contents, prospectives. In: Semikhatov M.A. (Ed.). The Rise
and Fall of the Vendian (Ediacaran) Biota. Origin of Modern Biosphere. Proceedings of
the International Symposium (IGCP Project 493). Moscow, GEOS, p. 78-82.
20. Федонкин М. А. 2007. Ancient biosphere: emergence, trends and events. Transactions of
the international conference “50th anniversary of the International Geophysical Year and
Electronic Geophysical Year (September 16-19, 2007, Suzdal’). (Abstract, in Russian).