Did respiration or photosynthesis come first?

Energy conservation in chemotrophic anaerobic bacteria

Rudolf K. Thauer, Kurt Jungermann, K. Decker · Bacteriological Reviews · 1977 · 3.6K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +14

Reconstitution of Purple Membrane Vesicles Catalyzing Light-driven Proton Uptake and Adenosine Triphosphate Formation

Efraim Racker, Walther Stoeckenius · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1974 · 716 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Biophysics +15

Origins of Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes, Mitochondria, and Chloroplasts

R. M. Schwartz, M. O. Dayhoff · Science · 1978 · 597 citations

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology +17

Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Evolution on the Primitive Earth

Preston E. Cloud · Science · 1968 · 511 citations

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geology +17

A cyanobacterium which lacks thylakoids

R. Rippka, John Waterbury, Germaine Cohen-Bazire · Archives of Microbiology · 1974 · 338 citations

Life Sciences, Plant Biology, Plant Sciences +10