From a soup or a seed? Pyritic metabolic complexes in the origin of life

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 178-181

  Edwards, Matthew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

EID: 0032080710     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(97)01317-7     Document Type: Review

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