Aerobic firsts (IMAGE)
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Researchers mapped enzyme sequences from several thousand modern species onto an evolutionary tree of life. Their findings suggest that, shortly after cyanobacteria evolved the ability to produce oxygen, other living things evolved the enzyme to use that oxygen.
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Courtesy of Fatima Husain
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