Follow the nitrogen

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5774, 2006, Pages 708-709

  Capone, Douglas G ^a   Popa, Radu ^b   Flood, Beverly ^a   Nealson, Kenneth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; CARBON; NITRATE;

NITROGEN; TECHNOLOGY;

ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL BOND; COSMOS; GEOCHEMISTRY; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; LIFE; METABOLISM; MICROCLIMATE; NITROGEN FIXATION; TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; JUPITER; LIFE; MARS; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SATURN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33646464081     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1111863     Document Type: Review

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16. We thank NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and NSF for financial support. We also thank the USC students of Geobiology and Astrobiology (BISC 483, spring 2004) for some of the discussion leading to this Perspective.