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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Main Authors: Danovaro, Roberto, Gambi, Cristina, Dell’Anno, Antonio, Corinaldesi, Cinzia, Pusceddu, Antonio, Neves, Ricardo Cardoso, Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4895820/