Fluidized muds: A novel setting for the generation of biosphere diversity through geologic time

Geobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 169-178

  Aller, J Y ^a   Aller, R C ^a   Kemp, P F ^b   Chistoserdov, A Y ^c   Madrid, V M ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY EARTH; ECOTYPE; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GENE TRANSFER; HISTORICAL RECORD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUD; PHYLOGENETICS; REDOX CONDITIONS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEDIMENT; TIME; BACTERIA;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TIME; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77954006138     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00234.x     Document Type: Article

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