Digging up the roots of life

Nature

Volumn 379, Issue 6566, 1996, Pages 587-588

  Mooers, Arne Ø ^a   Redfield, Rosemary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; LIFE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SHORT SURVEY; TREE;

BACTERIA; BIOGENESIS; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; TIME;

EID: 0030054315     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/379587a0     Document Type: Short Survey

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