The roots of metabolism

Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 174-186

  Cody, George D ^a   Scott, James H ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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