Doushantuo embryos preserved inside diapause egg cysts

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7136, 2007, Pages 661-663

  Yin, Leiming ^a   Zhu, Maoyan ^a   Knoll, Andrew H ^b   Yuan, Xunlai ^a   Zhang, Junming ^a   Hu, Jie ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; CAMBRIAN; CYST; DIAPAUSE; EARLY EARTH; EDIACARAN; EMBRYO; EUKARYOTE; GLACIATION; MICROFOSSIL; PHOSPHATIZATION; PRESERVATION; PROTEROZOIC;

ARTICLE; CYST; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIAPAUSE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FOSSIL; MICROFOSSIL; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ACRITARCHA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; THIOMARGARITA;

EID: 34247275930     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05682     Document Type: Article

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