Early evolution: Prokaryotes, the new kids on the block

BioEssays

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 880-889

  Poole, Anthony ^a,b   Jeffares, Daniel ^a   Penny, David ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

BIOGENESIS; DNA; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RIBOSOMES; RNA;

EID: 0033214195     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199910)21:10<880::AID-BIES11>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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