Slime through time: The fossil record of prokaryote evolution

Palaios

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Noffke, Nora ^a   Decho, Alan W ^b   Stoodley, Paul ^c  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MUCILAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROKARYOTE;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84873453257     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2013.SO1     Document Type: Article

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