| aerobic and anaerobic metabolism in oxygen minimum layer fishes: the role of alcohol dehydrogenase. | zones of minimum oxygen form at intermediate depth in all the world's oceans as a result of global circulation patterns that keep the water at oceanic mid-depths out of contact with the atmosphere for hundreds of years. in areas where primary production is very high, the microbial oxidation of sinking organic matter results in very low oxygen concentrations at mid-depths. such is the case with the arabian sea, with o(2) concentrations reaching zero at 200 m and remaining very low (<0.1 ml o(2)l( ... | 2012 | 22573769 |