Oxygen requirements of the earliest animals
A rise in the oxygen content of the atmosphere and oceans is one of the most popular explanations for the relatively late and abrupt appearance of animal life on Earth. In this scenario, Earth's surface environment failed to meet the high oxygen requirements of animals up until the middle to late Neoproterozoic Era (850-542 million years ago), when oxygen concentrations sufficiently rose to permit the existence of animal life for the first time. Although multiple lines of geochemical evidence support an oxygenation of the Ediacaran oceans (635-542 million years ago), roughly corresponding with the first appearance of metazoans in the fossil record, the oxygen requirements of basal animals remain unclear. Here we show that modern demosponges, serving as analogs for early animals, can survive under low-oxygen conditions of 0.5-4.0% present atmospheric levels. Because the last common ancestor of metazoans likely exhibited a physiology and morphology similar to that of a modern sponge, its oxygen demands may have been met well before the enhanced oxygenation of the Ediacaran Period. Therefore, the origin of animals may not have been triggered by a contemporaneous rise in the oxygen content of the atmosphere and oceans. Instead, other ecological and developmental processes are needed to adequately explain the origin and earliest evolution of animal life on Earth.
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CommentIn: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Mar 18;111(11):3907-8. - PMID 24616507 |
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 111(2014), 11 vom: 18. März, Seite 4168-72 |
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Date Completed 29.05.2014 Date Revised 21.10.2021 published: Print-Electronic CommentIn: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Mar 18;111(11):3907-8. - PMID 24616507 Citation Status MEDLINE |
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