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Metals for microbes in the ancient sea
Johnson, J.E. (2023). Metals for microbes in the ancient sea. Nature Geoscience 16(12): 1078-1079. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01314-z
In: Nature Geoscience. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 1752-0894; e-ISSN 1752-0908, more
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  • Johnson, J.E.
Abstract
    Identifying the metal micronutrients required by early life could help to illuminate how primitive organisms arose, but which metals were biologically available in ancient seawater has not been determined. A new experimental framework suggests how the precipitation of iron minerals from seawater reduced the availability of key metals, particularly zinc, copper and vanadium.
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