A genomic timescale of prokaryote evolution: Insights into the origin of methanogenesis, phototrophy, and the colonization of land

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Battistuzzi, Fabia U ^a   Feijao, Andreia ^b   Hedges, S Blair ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; DEINOCOCCUS; PROKARYOTA;

METHANE;

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TIME;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMASS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; METHANE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TIME;

EID: 10644230266     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-4-44     Document Type: Article

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