Looking for the most "primitive" organism(s) on Earth today: the state of the art

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 1995, Pages 167-177

  Forterre, Patrick ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BACTERIUM; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOGENESIS; EARTH (PLANET); EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXOBIOLOGY; HEAT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0029171489     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0032-0633(94)00167-P     Document Type: Article

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