Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archaean era

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6824, 2001, Pages 77-81

  Shen, Yanan ^a   Buick, Roger ^b   Canfield, Donald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; RIBOSOME RNA; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARCHAEA; ARCTIC REGIONS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFATES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; TIME;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0035282466     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35065071     Document Type: Article

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