Tracing Oxygen's Imprint on Earth's Metabolic Evolution
Abstract
As oxygen built up in Earth9s 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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Life exists on chemical energy derived from the differing ability to attract and hold electrons in chemicals made up of H, C, N, O, S, Fe, Mn, and other elements.
“At the most fundamental level, life exists on chemical energy derived from the differing ability to attract and hold electrons in chemicals made up of H, C, N, O, S, Fe, Mn, and other elements (Levin, 2001; Falkowski, 2006; Falkowski et al., 2008).”
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- Authors
- Falkowski, P. G.
- Affiliations
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Corresponding author
- Falkowski, Paul G.
- ORCID
- Falkowski, Paul G.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2006-03-24
- Volume
- 311
- Issue
- 5768
- Pages
- 1724-1725
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1533648013
- Cited by
- 175
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 9.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Keywords
- Precambrian, metabolic evolution, aerobic metabolism, anaerobic metabolism, biochemical reaction networks
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Electron Transport, Electrons, Energy Metabolism, Eukaryotic Cells, Biological Evolution, Metabolism, Oxidation-Reduction, Oxygen, Photosynthesis, Selection, Genetic, Water, Reactive Oxygen Species, Evolution, Molecular, Computational Biology, Gene Duplication, Gene Transfer, Horizontal
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