Scientists Discover the First Animal That Doesn't Breathe Oxygen or a Breakthrough in the Exploration of Extraterrestrial Life
Global Network Technology Comprehensive ReportAs widely known, oxygen is crucial for life on Earth. Almost all multicellular organisms’ basic characteristic is breathing oxygen.
However, recently, according to foreign media reports, scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel have discovered that the parasites attached to fish, ‘H.salminicola’, do not need to breathe oxygen to obtain energy, this is also the first known animal on Earth that doesn’t breathe.
“Aerobic respiration is considered to be common in animals, but now we have confirmed that it is not the case.” Dorothee Huchon, an animal from Tel Aviv University, said.
Foreign media reports that Huchon’s team’s article was published in the latest issue of the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ where they detected and sequenced the genome of H.salminicola, which is different from all other known animals, it doesn’t have a mitochondrial genome.
“However, we still don’t know how H.salminicola obtains energy without breathing,” Huchon said. “It may be obtaining oxygen from the salmon’s cells, or it may have evolved a survival method similar to that of unicellular organisms, but further research is needed to find the answer.”
Foreign media pointed out that the exploration of extraterrestrial life is now based on oxygen, water and other substances, this discovery will not only break the fixed pattern of exploring Earth life, but also is a new breakthrough in the future exploration of extraterrestrial life.
