Late proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration inferred from phylogenetic and sulphur-isotope studies

Nature

Volumn 382, Issue 6587, 1996, Pages 127-132

  Canfield, Donald E ^a   Teske, Andreas ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEDIMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIA; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLLUSCA; OXYGEN; PALEONTOLOGY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFUR; SYMBIOSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SULPHIDE; SULPHUR ISOTOPE;

EID: 0029663540     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/382127a0     Document Type: Article

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