Contingent interactions among biofilm-forming bacteria determine preservation or decay in the first steps toward fossilization of marine embryos

Evolution and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 243-256

  Raff, Elizabeth C ^a,b   Andrews, Mary E ^a   Turner, F Rudolf ^a   Toh, Evelyn ^a   Nelson, David E ^a   Raff, Rudolf A ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EMBRYO; FOSSILIZATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESERVATION; SEAWATER; TAPHONOMY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANIMAL; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CYTOPLASM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LARVA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA URCHIN;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; ARTEMIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CYTOPLASM; FOSSILS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LARVA; LIPIDS; SEA URCHINS; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

ANIMALIA; ARTEMIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84879842552     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ede.12028     Document Type: Article

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