Uniting sex and eukaryote origins in an emerging oxygenic world

Biology Direct

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gross, Jeferson ^a   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; OXYGEN; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 77955795400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-5-53     Document Type: Article

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