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Animals thrive without oxygen at sea bottom

Nature volume 464, page 825 (2010)Cite this article

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Creatures found where only microbes and viruses were thought to survive.

Living exclusively oxygen-free was thought to be a lifestyle open only to viruses and single-celled microorganisms. A group of Italian and Danish researchers has now found three species of multicellular animal, or metazoan, that apparently spend their entire lives in oxygen-starved waters in a basin at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Department of Marine Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche

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Lisa Levin

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Fang, J. Animals thrive without oxygen at sea bottom. Nature 464, 825 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/464825b

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