Evolution: When was life's first branch point?

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 679-682

  Golding, Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; FUNGAL PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0030155986     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(09)00448-5     Document Type: Article

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