Tracing Oxygen's Imprint on Earth's Metabolic Evolution
- 24 March 2006
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 311 (5768), 1724-1725
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1125937
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.Keywords
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