Tracing oxygen's imprint on earth's metabolic evolution

Paul G. Falkowski

doi:10.1126/science.1125937

Tracing oxygen's imprint on earth's metabolic evolution

Paul G. Falkowski

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Abstract

As oxygen built up in Earth's atmosphere during the Precambrian, organisms evolved more complex biochemical networks. This expansion made feasible oxygen-dependent metabolisms that coopted parts of preexisting anaerobic ones.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1724-1725
Number of pages	2
Journal	Science
Volume	311
Issue number	5768
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1125937
State	Published - Mar 24 2006

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