Oxygen and animals in Earth history

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3907-3908

  Knoll, Andrew H ^a   Sperling, Erik A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL ANIMAL; HISTORICAL PERIOD; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NEW RECORD (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; NOTE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TENSION; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER GROUP;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MICROBIOTA; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PORIFERA;

EID: 84896516443     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1401745111     Document Type: Note

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