Exploring cyanobacterial mutualisms

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 38, Issue , 2007, Pages 255-273

  Usher, Kayley M ^a   Bergman, Birgitta ^b   Raven, John A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution of symbiosis; Symbiosis; Transmission

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GAMETE; MUTUALISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SESSILE SPECIES; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS; TOXIN;

CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 37749047831     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.38.091206.095641     Document Type: Review

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