[ExI] anoxic loriciferans discovered

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 16:54:03 UTC 2010


On 4/20/10, Dan wrote:
> I wonder if they are from a line that was always anoxic or merely adapted to
> anoxic conditions.
>
>

I fund a paper discussing this. (14 page pdf file)

<http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1741-7007-8-32.pdf>

The oceans were originally anoxic when these creatures developed in
the pre-Cambrian era.  So they are a remnant of primitive life.

BillK



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