The microbial engines that drive earth's biogeochemical cycles

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5879, 2008, Pages 1034-1039

  Falkowski, Paul G ^a   Fenchel, Tom ^b   Delong, Edward F ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COEVOLUTION; EARTH; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; REDOX CONDITIONS;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETICS; GEOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ELEMENT;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEM; ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 44449137093     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153213     Document Type: Review

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