Very interesting review estimating that cyanobacteria were already prepared for aerobic metabolism before oxygenating the global atmosphere!
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Danillo O. Alvarenga
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A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the ge...
