Evolution - Tracing oxygen's imprint on Earth's metabolic evolution

被引:97
作者
Falkowski, PG [1 ]
机构
[1] Rutgers State Univ, Inst Marine & Coastal Sci, Environm Biophys & Mol Ecol Program, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
[2] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Geol Sci, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
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10.1126/science.1125937
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
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.
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页码:1724 / 1725
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