Atmospheric carbon dioxide: A driver of photosynthetic eukaryote evolution for over a billion years?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1588, 2012, Pages 477-482

  Beerling, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric carbon dioxide; Evolution; Fossils; Geochemistry; Molecular genetics; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGA; CARBON DIOXIDE; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84855668639     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0276     Document Type: Article

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