Oxygen and Early Animal Evolution

Treatise on Geochemistry: Second Edition

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 231-250

  Xiao, S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal evolution; Ediacaran Period; Ocean oxygenation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTIVE LIFESTYLES; ANIMAL EVOLUTION; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EDIACARAN; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; GLOBAL GEOCHEMICAL CYCLES; TWO-WAY INTERACTION;

ANIMALS;

EID: 84893314165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-095975-7.01310-3     Document Type: Chapter

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