Metabolic evolution and the self-organization of ecosystems

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

Volumn 114, Issue 15, 2017, Pages E3091-E3100

  Braakman, Rogier ^a,b   Follows, Michael J ^b   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth history; Metabolic evolution; Microbial oceanography; Mutualism; Prochlorococcus

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON; SURFACE WATER; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CELL COMPOSITION; COEVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GROWTH RATE; HETEROTROPHY; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYMBIOSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEAWATER;

EID: 85028313974     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1619573114     Document Type: Article

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