Semes for analysis of evolution: De Duve's peroxisomes and Meyer's hydrogenases in the sulphurous Proterozoic eon [1]

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Margulis, Lynn ^a   Chapman, Michael ^a   Dolan, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGENASE; SULFUR;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MOTILITY; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL TIME; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; LETTER; MEMBRANE FUSION; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PEROXISOME; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEROZOIC; SYMBIOSIS; THERMOACIDOPHILIC ARCHAEON;

EID: 35348965708     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2071-c     Document Type: Letter

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