The Only Animal That Can’t Breathe Oxygen

The Only Animal That Can’t Breathe Oxygen

Posted April 4, 2020

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Oxygen is so essential for animals that every multicellular species we’ve ever studied has the ability to use oxygen to create energy… except one.

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Sources:
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/10/5358
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3372258/

Images:
https://figshare.com/articles/Live_cells_plasmodia_of_Henneguya_salminicola_Myxozoa_/9939413
https://figshare.com/articles/An_animal_without_a_mitochondrial_genome_Source_Data_Fig_S7/9897284/1
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myxozoans_Life_Cycle.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animal_mitochondrion_diagram_en.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animal_cell_structure_en.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitochondrial_DNA_lg.jpg
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/mitochondria-gm528903390-93132137
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https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/silver-salmon-alaska-usa-gm1096730850-294480291
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