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The Functionality of Pores in Benthic Foraminifera in View of Bottom Water Oxygenation: A Review

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This chapter will give a brief review about the present understanding of pores in tests of benthic foraminifera. The interpretation of the pore function changed through time, and a couple of theories were proposed. The research about the functionality of pores recently became of new interest because it seems likely that they are involved in the respiration pathways of some benthic foraminifera. The fact that several benthic species are able to survive anoxia points out the importance for a better understanding of these respiration pathways and which adaptions differentiate these species from species which cannot survive in oxygen-depleted habitats. Nitrate respiration seems to be widespread among foraminifera from oxygen-depleted habitats, and thus knowledge if and in how far the pores are involved in the process of denitrification would help to understand the process of denitrification in eukaryotic foraminiferal cells.

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 Acknowledgments

We thank Anton Eisenhauer for his helpful general support and the providing of the Ph.D. position of the first author. Volker Liebetrau supported this work with helpful general discussions and organization. Support in the operation of the SEM at the Christian Albrecht University in Kiel came by Ute Schuldt. The scientific party on R/V METEOR cruise M77 is acknowledged for their general support and advice in multicorer operation and sampling. The “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, (DFG)” provided funding through SFB 754 “Climate–Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean.”

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Glock, N., Schönfeld, J., Mallon, J. (2012). The Functionality of Pores in Benthic Foraminifera in View of Bottom Water Oxygenation: A Review. In: Altenbach, A., Bernhard, J., Seckbach, J. (eds) Anoxia. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1896-8_28

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