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Modern life in ancient mats

Michael M. Tice
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Michael M. Tice: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3115, USA. tice@geo.tamu.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 452, issue 7183, 40-41

Abstract: Microbial communities seem to have inhabited tidal sediments 2.9 billion years ago much as they do today — but what organisms were involved, and how they made their living, remain intriguing questions.

Date: 2008
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