Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "microbe"

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    • Controls on Development and Diversity of Early Archean Stromatolites 

      Allwood, Abigail C.; Grotzinger, John P.; Knoll, Andrew Herbert; Burch, Ian W.; Anderson, Mark S.; Coleman, Max L.; Kanik, Isik (National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
      The ≈3,450-million-year-old Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia contains a reef-like assembly of laminated sedimentary accretion structures (stromatolites) that have macroscale characteristics suggestive of ...

    • Convergence in Multispecies Interactions 

      Bittleston, Leonora Sophia; Pierce, Naomi E.; Ellison, Aaron M.; Pringle, Anne (Elsevier BV, 2016)
      The concepts of convergent evolution and community convergence highlight how selective pressures can shape unrelated organisms or communities in similar ways. We propose a related concept, convergent interactions, to ...

    • Stromatolites in Precambrian Carbonates: Evolutionary Mileposts or Environmental Dipsticks? 

      Grotzinger, John P.; Knoll, Andrew (Annual Reviews, 1999)
      Stromatolites are attached, lithified sedimentary growth structures, accretionary away from a point or limited surface of initiation. Though the accretion process is commonly regarded to result from the sediment trapping ...