Arachaea
Subtitle: Ancient Microbes, Extreme Environments, and the Origin of Life (Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 50) (Advances in Applied Microbiology)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780120026500
Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); Science; Industrial Microbiology; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Science; Applied Sciences; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Microbiology; Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; Environmental; Science / Genetics; Biotechnology
First sentence: Four billion years ago our planet began accumulating a rock record, a geological event that heralded the beginning of the Archean Eon (Fig. 1).