Geological evidence of oxygenic photosynthesis and the biotic response to the 2400-2200 Ma "great Oxidation Event"

Biochemistry (Moscow)

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 165-177

  Schopf, J William ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon isotopic fraction; cyanobacterial evolution; microfossils; oldest eucaryotes; oxygen requiring biosynthesis; Precambrian; stromatolites

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON; OXYGEN; RIBOSOME RNA;

CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTORY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CYANOBACTERIA; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 84896983974     PISSN: 00062979     EISSN: 16083040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0006297914030018     Document Type: Review

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