The challenge of proving the existence of metazoan life in permanently anoxic deep-sea sediments
The demonstration of the existence of metazoan life in absence of free oxygen is one of the most fascinating and difficult challenges in biology. Danovaro et al. (2010) discovered three new species of the Phylum Loricifera, living in the anoxic sediments of the L’Atalante, a deep-hypersaline anoxic...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4895820/ |