Anoxia: Evidence for Eukaryote Survival and Paleontological Strategies

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Anaerobic Eukaryotes....Pages 3-16
Biogeochemical Reactions in Marine Sediments Underlying Anoxic Water Bodies....Pages 17-38
Diversity of Anaerobic Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes: Breaking Long-Established Dogmas....Pages 39-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
The Biochemical Adaptations of Mitochondrion-Related Organelles of Parasitic and Free-Living Microbial Eukaryotes to Low Oxygen Environments....Pages 51-81
Hydrogenosomes and Mitosomes: Mitochondrial Adaptations to Life in Anaerobic Environments....Pages 83-112
Adapting to Hypoxia: Lessons from Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor....Pages 113-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Magnetotactic Protists at the Oxic–Anoxic Transition Zones of Coastal Aquatic Environments....Pages 131-143
A Novel Ciliate (Ciliophora: Hypotrichida) Isolated from Bathyal Anoxic Sediments....Pages 145-154
The Wood-Eating Termite Hindgut: Diverse Cellular Symbioses in a Microoxic to Anoxic Environment....Pages 155-166
Ecological and Experimental Exposure of Insects to Anoxia Reveals Surprising Tolerance....Pages 167-188
The Unusual Response of Encysted Embryos of the Animal Extremophile, Artemia franciscana , to Prolonged Anoxia....Pages 189-203
Survival of Tardigrades in Extreme Environments: A Model Animal for Astrobiology....Pages 205-217
Long-Term Anoxia Tolerance in Flowering Plants....Pages 219-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Benthic Foraminifera: Inhabitants of Low-Oxygen Environments....Pages 249-285
Ecological and Biological Response of Benthic Foraminifera Under Oxygen-Depleted Conditions: Evidence from Laboratory Approaches....Pages 287-303
The Response of Benthic Foraminifera to Low-Oxygen Conditions of the Peruvian Oxygen Minimum Zone....Pages 305-321
Benthic Foraminiferal Communities and Microhabitat Selection on the Continental Shelf Off Central Peru....Pages 323-340
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
Living Assemblages from the “Dead Zone” and Naturally Occurring Hypoxic Zones....Pages 343-352
The Return of Shallow Shelf Seas as Extreme Environments: Anoxia and Macrofauna Reactions in the Northern Adriatic Sea....Pages 353-368
Meiobenthos of the Oxic/Anoxic Interface in the Southwestern Region of the Black Sea: Abundance and Taxonomic Composition....Pages 369-401
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
The Role of Eukaryotes in the Anaerobic Food Web of Stratified Lakes....Pages 403-419
The Anoxic Framvaren Fjord as a Model System to Study Protistan Diversity and Evolution....Pages 421-448
Characterizing an Anoxic Habitat: Sulfur Bacteria in a Meromictic Alpine Lake....Pages 449-461
Ophel, the Newly Discovered Hypoxic Chemolithotrophic Groundwater Biome: A Window to Ancient Animal Life....Pages 463-478
Microbial Eukaryotes in the Marine Subsurface?....Pages 479-493
Front Matter....Pages 495-495
On The Use of Stable Nitrogen Isotopes in Present and Past Anoxic Environments....Pages 497-513
Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Fractionation in Foraminifera: Possible Signatures from Anoxia....Pages 515-535
The Functionality of Pores in Benthic Foraminifera in View of Bottom Water Oxygenation: A Review....Pages 537-552
Anoxia-Dysoxia at the Sediment-Water Interface of the Southern Tethys in the Late Cretaceous: Mishash Formation, Southern Israel....Pages 553-572
Styles of Agglutination in Benthic Foraminifera from Modern Santa Barbara Basin Sediments and the Implications of Finding Fossil Analogs in Devonian and Mississippian Black Shales....Pages 573-589
Did Redox Conditions Trigger Test Templates in Proterozoic Foraminifera?....Pages 591-614
The Relevance of Anoxic and Agglutinated Benthic Foraminifera to the Possible Archean Evolution of Eukaryotes....Pages 615-630
Back Matter....Pages 631-348