Biomarker evidence for green and purple sulphur bacteria in a stratified Palaeoproterozoic sea

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7060, 2005, Pages 866-870

  Brocks, Jochen J ^a   Love, Gordon D ^b   Summons, Roger E ^b,c   Knoll, Andrew H ^d   Logan, Graham A ^e   Bowden, Stephen A ^f  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACTERIA; ECOLOGY; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SULFUR;

EUKARYOTIC ALGAE; HYDROCARBON BIOMARKERS; MARINE BASINS; MARINE COMMUNITIES;

BIOMARKERS;

HYDROCARBON;

BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; EARLY EARTH; ORIGIN OF LIFE; OXYGEN; PROTEROZOIC;

ALGA; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGAE; CHLOROBIACEAE; CHROMATIACEAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 27144475394     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04068     Document Type: Article

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