Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
News and Views
Nature 440, 426-427 (23 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440426a; Published online 22 March 2006
Biochemistry: Gas with an ancient history
Don E. Canfield1
Abstract
Researchers persist in tackling our ignorance of what life was like way back in Earth's history. Evidence of methane production in ancient microbial ecosystems now emerges from 3.5-billion-year-old rocks.
Piecing together the early history of life from the geological record is like putting together an incomplete jigsaw puzzle. A few of the pieces connect, but many of them don't, and most are missing.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS
These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated.
RESEARCH
Evidence from fluid inclusions for microbial methanogenesis in the early Archaean eraNature Letters to Editor (23 Mar 2006)
Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archaean eraNature Letters to Editor (01 Mar 2001)
Geochemistry Biosignatures and abiotic constraints on early life (Reply)Nature Brief Communication (14 Dec 2006)