Was the environment for primordial life hypersaline?

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 375-377

  Dundas, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALINITY;

ARCHAEA; BIOGENESIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 0032142744     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050081     Document Type: Review

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