Environmental oxygen conditions during the origin and early evolution of life

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 7-15

  Towe, Kenneth M ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; EVOLUTION; ORIGIN OF LIFE; OXYGEN;

EID: 0030438749     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0273-1177(96)00022-1     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. M.J. Newman and R.T. Rood, Implications of solar evolution for the Earth's atmosphere, Science, 198, 1035-1037 (1977).
2. V.M. Canuto, J.S. Levine, T.R. Augustsson, and C.L. Imhoff, UV radiation from the young Sun and oxygen and ozone levels in the prebiological palaeoatmosphere, Nature, 296, 816-820 (1982).
3. K.M. Towe, Environmental conditions surrounding the origin and early evolution of life, Precambrian Res. 16, 1-10 (1981).
4. K.M. Towe, Early biochemical innovations, oxygen, and earth history, in: Molecular Evolution and the Fossil Record, ed. T. W. Broadhead, Short Courses in Paleontology, 1, 114-129 (1988).
5. K.M. Towe, Earth's early atmosphere: constraints and opportunities for early evolution, in: Early Life on Earth, ed. S. Bengtson, Nobel Symposium no. 84, Columbia Univ. Press, NY 1994, p. 36-47.
6. A.J. Blake and J.H. Carver, The evolutionary role of atmospheric ozone, Jour. Atmospheric Sci., 34, 720-728 (1977).
7. J.S. Levine, R.E. Boughner, and K.A. Smith, Ozone, ultraviolet light flux, and the temperature of the paleoatmosphere, Origins of Life, 10, 199-213 (1980).
8. J. F. Kasting, Theoretical constraints on oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in the Precambrian atmosphere, Precambrian Res., 34, 205-229 (1987).
9. F.P. Talley, P.R. Stewart, V.L. Sutter, and J.E. Rosenblatt, Oxygen tolerance of fresh clinical anaerobic bacteria, Jour. of Clinical Microbiology, 1, 161-164 (1975).
10. W.J. Loesche, Oxygen sensitivity of various anaerobic bacteria, Appl. Microbiology, 18, 723-727 (1969).
11. G. Horneck, Responses of Bacillus subtilus spores to space environment: results from experiments in space: Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 23, 37-52 (1993).
12. M. Rambler and L. Margulis, Bacterial resistance to ultraviolet irradiation under anaerobiosis: implications for pre-Phanerozoic evolution, Science, 210, 638-640 (1980).
13. G. Horneck, H. Bücker, G. Reitz, H. Requardt, K. Dose, K.D. Martens, H.D. Menningmann and P. Weber, Microorganisms in the space environment, Science, 225, 226-228 (1984).
14. R. Huber, T. Wilharm, D. Huber, A. Trincone, S. Burggraf, H. König, R. Rachel, I. Rockinger, H. Fricke, and K.O. Stetter, Aquifex pyrophilus gen. nov. sp. nov., represents a novel group of marine hyperthermophilic hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria, System. Appl. Microbiology, 15, 340-351 (1992).
15. K.O. Stetter, The lesson of Archaebacteria, in: Early Life on Earth, ed. S. Bengtson, Nobel Symposium no. 84, Columbia Univ. Press, NY 1994, p. 143-151.
16. K.M. Towe, Aerobic respiration in the Archaean? Nature, 348, 54-56 (1990).
17. K.M. Towe, Aerobic carbon cycling and cerium oxidation: significance for Archean oxygen levels and banded iron-formation deposition, Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol. (Global & Planetary Change), 97, 113-123 (1991).
18. C.R. Woese, Bacterial evolution, Microbiol Reviews, 51, 221-271 (1987).
19. J. A. Lake, Origin of the eukaryotic nucleus determined by rate-invariant analysis of rRNA sequences. Nature, 331, 184-186 (1988).
20. K.O. Stetter, G. Fiala, R. Huber, and A. Segerer, Hyperthermophilic microorganisms, FEMS Microbiol. Reviews, 75, 117-124 (1990).
21. K.B. Krauskopf, Introduction to Geochemistry, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1979, p. 219-227.
22. S. Belkin, C.O. Wirsen, and H.W. Jannasch, Biological and abiological sulfur reduction at high temperatures. Appl. Environ. Microbiology, 49, 1057-1061 (1985).
23. K. Asada, S. Kanematsu, S. Okaka, and T. Hayakawa, Phylogenetic distribution of three types of superoxide dismutase in organisms and in cell organelles. in: Chemical and Biochemical Aspects of Superoxide and Superoxide Dismutase, eds. J.V. Bannister and H.A.O. Hill, Elsevier, 1980, p. 136-153.
24. R.F. Dymek and C. Klein, Chemistry, petrology and origin of banded iron-formation lithologies from the 3800 Ma supercrustal belt, west Greenland, Precambrian Res. 39, 247-302 (1988).
25. C. Klein and N.J. Beukes, Geochemistry and sedimentology of a facies transition from limestone to iron-formation deposition in the early Proterozoic Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa. Economic Geol. 84, 1733-1774 (1989).
26. H. Elderfield, The oceanic chemistry of the rare-earth elements, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London, A325, 105-126 (1988).
27. J. Thomson, M.N.S. Carpenter, S. Colley, T.R.S. Wilson, H. Elderfield, and H. Kennedy, Metal accumulation rates in northwest Atlantic pelagic sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 48, 1935-1948 (1984).
28. E.R. Sholkovitz, W.M. Landing, and B.L. Lewis, Ocean particle chemistry: the fractionation of rare earth elements between suspended particles and seawater. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 58, 1567-1579 (1994).
29. W.L. Marshall, Hydrothermal synthesis of amino acids, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 58 2099-2106 (1994).
30. J.C.G. Walker and P. Brimblecombe, Iron and sulfur in the pre-biologic ocean, Precambrian Res., 28, 205-222 (1985).
31. M.W. Walter, R. Buick, and J.S. Dunlop, Stromatolites 3,400-3,500 Myr old from the North Pole area, Western Australia, Nature, 284, 443-445 (1980).
32. D.R. Lowe and G.R. Byerly, Archaean flow-top alteration zones formed initially in a low-temperature sulphate-rich environment, Nature, 324, 245-248 (1986).
33. H. Ohmoto, T. Kakegawa, and D.R. Lowe, 3.4-billion-year-old biogenic pyrites from Barberton, South Africa: sulfur isotope evidence Science, 262, 555-557 (1993).
34. D.B. Jordan and W.L. Ogren, Species variation in the specificity of ribulose biphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, Nature, 291, 513-515 (1981).
35. N. Kokubu, T. Mayeda, and H.C. Urey, Deuterium content of minerals, rocks and liquid inclusions from rocks. Geochim. Cosmochem. Acta, 21, 247-256 (1961).
36. E. Anders and T. Owen, Mars and Earth: origin and abundance of volatiles, Science, 198, 453-465 (1977).
37. T. Owen, J.P. Maillard, C. de Bergh, and B.L. Lutz, Deuterium on Mars: the abundance of HDO and the value of D/H. Science, 240, 1767-1769 (1988).
38. T.M. Donahue, J.H. Hoffman, R.R. Hodges Jr., and A.J. Watson, Venus was wet: A measurement of the ratio of D to H, Science., 216, 630-631 (1982).
39. C.F. Chyba, P.J. Thomas, L. Brookshaw, and C. Sagan, Cometary delivery of organic molecules to the early Earth, Science, 249, 366-373 (1990).
40. C.F. Chyba and C. Sagan, Endogenous production, exogenous delivery, and impact-shock synthesis of organic molecules: an inventory for the origins of life, Nature, 355, 125-131 (1992).
41. M. Schidlowski, A 3,800-million year old isotopic record of life from carbon in sedimentary rocks, Nature, 333, 313-318 (1988).
42. J.M. Hayes, Geochemical evidence bearing on the origin of aerobiosis, a speculative hypothesis, in: Earth's Earliest Biosphere, It's Origin and Evolution, ed. J.W. Schopf, Princeton Univ. Press 1983, p. 291-301.
43. J.F. Kasting, K.J. Zahnle, J.P. Pinto, and A.T. Young, Sulfur, ultraviolet radiation and the early evolution of life, Origins of Life, 19, 95-108 (1989).
44. J.F. Kasting, Box models for the evolution of atmospheric oxygen: an update, Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol. (Global & Planetary Change), 97, 125-131 (1991).
45. J.E. Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia, Norton, 1988, p. 79-80.
46. J.F. Kasting, Earth's early atmosphere, Science, 259, 920-926 (1993).
47. P.E. Cloud, A working model of the primitive Earth, Amer. Jour. Sci., 272, 537-548 (1972).