Heterogeneous and dynamic marine shelf oxygenation and coupled early animal evolution

C Li, M Cheng, M Zhu, TW Lyons - Emerging Topics in Life …, 2018 - portlandpress.com
It is generally agreed that early diversification of animals and significant rise of atmospheric
and oceanic oxygen (O2) levels occurred in the Ediacaran (635–541 million years ago, Ma) …

Environmental factors influencing benthic communities in the oxygen minimum zones on the Angolan and Namibian margins

U Hanz, C Wienberg, D Hebbeln, G Duineveld… - …, 2019 - bg.copernicus.org
Thriving benthic communities were observed in the oxygen minimum zones along the
southwestern African margin. On the Namibian margin, fossil cold-water coral mounds were …

Breathless through time: oxygen and animals across Earth's history

EA Sperling, TH Boag, MI Duncan… - The Biological …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Oxygen levels in the atmosphere and ocean have changed dramatically over Earth history,
with major impacts on marine life. Because the early part of Earth's history lacked both …

Hypoxia in aquatic invertebrates: Occurrence and phenotypic and molecular responses

Y Lee, E Byeon, DH Kim, P Maszczyk, M Wang… - Aquatic Toxicology, 2023 - Elsevier
Global deoxygenation in aquatic systems is an increasing environmental problem, and
substantial oxygen loss has been reported. Aquatic animals have been continuously …

Microanalytical mass spectrometry with super-resolution microscopy reveals a proteome transition during development of the brain's circadian pacemaker

SB Choi, T Vatan, TA Alexander, C Zhang… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
During brain development, neuronal proteomes are regulated in part by changes in
spontaneous and sensory-driven activity in immature neural circuits. A longstanding model …

Adaptive strategies of sponges to deoxygenated oceans

V Micaroni, F Strano, R McAllen, L Woods… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean deoxygenation is one of the major consequences of climate change. In coastal
waters, this process can be exacerbated by eutrophication, which is contributing to an …

What is it like to be a choanoflagellate? Sensation, processing and behavior in the closest unicellular relatives of animals

N Ros-Rocher, T Brunet - Animal Cognition, 2023 - Springer
All animals evolved from a single lineage of unicellular precursors more than 600 million
years ago. Thus, the biological and genetic foundations for animal sensation, cognition and …

The evolutionary and physiological significance of the Hif pathway in teleost fishes

M Mandic, W Joyce, SF Perry - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
The hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) pathway is a key regulator of cellular O2 homeostasis and
an important orchestrator of the physiological responses to hypoxia (low O2) in vertebrates …

A small marine biosphere in the Proterozoic

TA Laakso, DP Schrag - Geobiology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The riverine supply of the globally limiting nutrient, phosphorus, to the ocean accounts for
only a few percent of nutrient supply to photosynthetic organisms in surface waters …

Comparative biology of oxygen sensing in plants and animals

MJ Holdsworth, DJ Gibbs - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Aerobic respiration is essential to almost all eukaryotes and sensing oxygen is a key
determinant of survival. Analogous but mechanistically different oxygen-sensing pathways …