Coupling of ocean redox and animal evolution during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition

The late Ediacaran to early Cambrian interval witnessed extraordinary radiations of metazoan life, in which the role of physical environment remains debated. Here, Wang et al. show that increased nutrient nitrogen availability may have exerted an important control on both macroevolution and ocean ox...

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Main Authors: Dan Wang, Hong-Fei Ling, Ulrich Struck, Xiang-Kun Zhu, Maoyan Zhu, Tianchen He, Ben Yang, Antonia Gamper, Graham A. Shields
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04980-5