Earth's earliest non-marine eukaryotes

Nature

Volumn 473, Issue 7348, 2011, Pages 505-509

  Strother, Paul K ^a   Battison, Leila ^b   Brasier, Martin D ^b   Wellman, Charles H ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; MICROFOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; NODULATION; PALEOKARST; PALEOSOL; PRECAMBRIAN; PRESERVATION; SHALE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TORRIDONIAN;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL GROWTH; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; FOSSIL ANIMAL; MARINE SPECIES; MICROFOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTA; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; SCOTLAND;

ARIZONA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79957616392     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09943     Document Type: Article

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