Primeval cells: Possible energy-generating and cell-division mechanisms

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 270-277

  Koch, Arthur L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Origin of bioenergetics; Origin of cells; Origin of Darwinian systems

Indexed keywords

BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATASE; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; EVOLUTION; GENES; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0021634032     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: 14321432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02102359     Document Type: Article

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