Marine microbiology: Origins of Death

Nick Lane

Nature, 2008, vol. 453, issue 7195, 583-585

Abstract: Programmed cell death is usually seen as the unique prerogative of plants and animals. So how is it that photosynthetic plankton have been killing themselves by uncannily similar methods for billions of years? Nick Lane investigates.

Date: 2008
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