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The first metazoa living in permanently anoxic conditions

Roberto Danovaro*, Antonio Dell'Anno, Antonio Pusceddu, Cristina Gambi, Iben Heiner and Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen

BMC Biology 2010, 8:30 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-8-30

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Low endemism, continued deep-shallow interchanges, and evidence for cosmopolitan distributions in free-living marine nematodes (order Enoplida)

Holly M Bik, W Kelley Thomas, David H Lunt, P John D Lambshead BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:389 (18 December 2010)

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Anaerobic Metazoans: No longer an oxymoron

Lisa A Levin BMC Biology 2010, 8:31 (6 April 2010)

Lisa Levin discusses how the three new species of Loricifera reported by Danovaro et al. add a new dimension to the community of unicellular organisms that live in anoxic ocean ecosystems.

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Anaerobic animals from an ancient, anoxic ecological niche

Marek Mentel, William Martin BMC Biology 2010, 8:32 (6 April 2010)

Marek Mentel and William Martin argue that the tiny anoxic animals reported by Danovaro et al, with their hydrogenosome-like organelles, are relevant to metazoan evolution before the rise of deep marine oxygen levels, about 550-600 million years ago.