The multiple origins of complex multicellularity

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue , 2011, Pages 217-239

  Knoll, Andrew H ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bulk transport; diffusion; embryophytes; evolution; fossil; Metazoa

Indexed keywords

BULK TRANSPORT; EMBRYOPHYTES; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; METAZOA;

ANIMALS; DIFFUSION; GENES; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; NUTRIENTS; TISSUE; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ALGAE;

ALGA; CLADISTICS; DIFFUSION; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNGUS; GENOMICS; METAZOAN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; LAMINARIALES; METAZOA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 79955490827     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100209     Document Type: Article

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