Archaean metabolic evolution of microbial mats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1436, 1999, Pages 2375-2382

  Nisbet, E G ^a   Fowler, C M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaean; Hyperthermophiles; Microbial mats; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL;

COEXISTENCE; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL MAT;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOFILM; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; FERMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC, GLIDING, SHEATHED, BUDDING OR APPENDAGED BACTERIA; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFUR BACTERIUM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0033534009     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0934     Document Type: Article

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