A nonhyperthermophilic common ancestor to extant life forms

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5399, 1999, Pages 220-221

  Galtier, Nicolas ^a   Tourasse, Nicolas ^b   Gouy, Manolo ^c  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

DNA; ORIGIN OF LIFE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOGENESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CYTOSINE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GUANINE; HEAT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033534584     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5399.220     Document Type: Article

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