Reply to Mulkidjanian and Galperin: Zn may have constrained evolution during the Proterozoic but not the Archean

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 36, 2010, Pages

  Dupont, Christopher L ^a   Caetano Anollés, Gustavo ^b  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; ZINC; ZINC BINDING PROTEIN; ZINC TRANSPORTER;

ARCHEAN; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOAVAILABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOMEOSTASIS; LETTER; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEROZOIC; THERMAL SPRING; THERMODYNAMICS; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 77957983241     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009565107     Document Type: Letter

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