Canopy flow analysis reveals the advantage of size in the oldest communities of multicellular eukaryotes

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 305-309

  Ghisalberti, Marco ^a   Gold, David A ^b   Laflamme, Marc ^c   Clapham, Matthew E ^d   Narbonne, Guy M ^e   Summons, Roger E ^f   Johnston, David T ^g   Jacobs, David K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84895068488     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.12.017     Document Type: Article

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