Microbial Metabolic Innovation: A Constraint On The Early Animal Fossil Record?

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• Phil Vixseboxse - University of Cambridge
• Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00
• Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

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For most of Earth’s history, soft tissues were rarely captured by the fossil record. Yet, for a brief window in the Ediacaran and early Palaeozoic, exceptional preservation of animal soft tissues was commonplace. Probing the genomes of a diverse array of microorganisms reveals metabolic innovations that substantially increase the decay rate of animal tissues, coincident with the decline of Ediacaran-style exceptional preservation.

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