Breathing room for early animals

Nature

Volumn 382, Issue 6587, 1996, Pages 111-112

  Knoll, Andrew H ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON 13; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; ISOTOPE; OXYGEN; SULFUR;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SEDIMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; BIVALVIA; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; OXYGEN; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030013144     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/382111a0     Document Type: Short Survey

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