Oxygenation, life, and the planetary system during Earth's middle history: An overview

TW Lyons, CW Diamond, NJ Planavsky, CT Reinhard… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The long history of life on Earth has unfolded as a cause-and-effect relationship with the
evolving amount of oxygen (O2) in the oceans and atmosphere. Oxygen deficiency …

Coral reef survival under accelerating ocean deoxygenation

DJ Hughes, R Alderdice, C Cooney, M Kühl… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Global warming and local eutrophication simultaneously lower oxygen (O2) saturation and
increase biological O2 demands to cause deoxygenation. Tropical shallow waters, and their …

Pharmacologic targeting of hypoxia-inducible factors

GL Semenza - Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) control transcriptional responses to reduced O2 availability.
HIFs are heterodimeric proteins composed of an O2-regulated HIF-α subunit and a …

Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

R Wood, AG Liu, F Bowyer, PR Wilby… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The 'Cambrian Explosion'describes the rapid increase in animal diversity and
abundance, as manifest in the fossil record, between~ 540 and 520 million years ago (Ma) …

Targeting hypoxia-inducible factors: therapeutic opportunities and challenges

X Yuan, W Ruan, B Bobrow, P Carmeliet… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2024 - nature.com
Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) are highly conserved transcription factors that are crucial for
adaptation of metazoans to limited oxygen availability. Recently, HIF activation and …

On the co‐evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals

DB Cole, DB Mills, DH Erwin, EA Sperling… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Few topics in geobiology have been as extensively debated as the role of Earth's
oxygenation in controlling when and why animals emerged and diversified. All currently …

[HTML][HTML] Highly fractionated chromium isotopes in Mesoproterozoic-aged shales and atmospheric oxygen

DE Canfield, S Zhang, AB Frank, X Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The history of atmospheric oxygen through the Mesoproterozoic Era is uncertain, but may
have played a role in the timing of major evolutionary developments among eukaryotes …

Global marine redox evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic constrained by the integration of Mo and U isotope records

GY Wei, NJ Planavsky, T He, F Zhang, RG Stockey… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence and diversification of early animals is commonly thought to have coincided
with atmosphere and ocean oxygenation across the terminal Neoproterozoic and early …

Divergent expression of hypoxia response systems under deoxygenation in reef‐forming corals aligns with bleaching susceptibility

R Alderdice, DJ Suggett, A Cárdenas… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure of marine life to low oxygen is accelerating worldwide via climate change and
localized pollution. Mass coral bleaching and mortality have recently occurred where reefs …

Early animal evolution: a morphologist's view

C Nielsen - Royal Society open science, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Two hypotheses for the early radiation of the metazoans are vividly discussed in recent
phylogenomic studies, the 'Porifera-first'hypothesis, which places the poriferans as the sister …