Respiratory protein-driven selectivity during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Haijun Song; Yuyang Wu; Xu Dai; Jacopo Dal Corso; Fengyu Wang; Yan Feng; Daoliang Chu; Li Tian; Huyue Song; William J. Foster

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Respiratory protein-driven selectivity during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

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State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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Biogéosciences, UMR 6282, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, 21000 Dijon, France
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Universität Hamburg, Institute for Geology, 20148 Hamburg, Germany

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Corresponding author: haijunsong@cug.edu.cn
Received Date: September 28, 2023

Accepted Date: March 25, 2024

Published Online: March 28, 2024

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1. ■ Physiological traits were key in determining species' survival during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.
2. ■ Clades with hemoglobin and hemocyanin exhibited high survival rates during the mass extinction.
3. ■ Clades with lower O₂-carrying capacity experienced a significant reduction in body size during anoxic events.

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Extinction selectivity determines the direction of macroevolution, especially during mass extinction; however, its driving mechanisms remain poorly understood. By investigating the physiological selectivity of marine animals during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, we found that marine clades with lower O₂-carrying capacity hemerythrin proteins and those relying on O₂ diffusion experienced significantly greater extinction intensity and body-size reduction than those with higher O₂-carrying capacity hemoglobin or hemocyanin proteins. Our findings suggest that animals with high O₂-carrying capacity obtained the necessary O₂ even under hypoxia and compensated for the increased energy requirements caused by ocean acidification, which enabled their survival during the PermianTriassic mass extinction. Thus, high O₂-carrying capacity may have been crucial for the transition from the Paleozoic to the Modern Evolutionary Fauna.

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