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Metabolically diverse primordial microbial communities in Earth’s oldest seafloor-hydrothermal jasper

The oldest putative fossils occur as hematite filaments and tubes in jasper-carbonate banded iron formations from the 4280- to 3750-Ma Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, Québec. If biological in origin, these filaments might have affinities with modern descendants; however, if abiotic, they could indic...

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Autores principales: Papineau, Dominic, She, Zhenbing, Dodd, Matthew S., Iacoviello, Francesco, Slack, John F., Hauri, Erik, Shearing, Paul, Little, Crispin T. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9007518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35417227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm2296