An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life

TA Williams, PG Foster, CJ Cox, TM Embley - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The discovery of the Archaea and the proposal of the three-domains 'universal'tree, based
on ribosomal RNA and core genes mainly involved in protein translation, catalysed new …

A review of molecular organic proxies for examining modern and ancient lacustrine environments

IS Castañeda, S Schouten - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Molecular organic geochemical proxies are increasingly being utilized to reconstruct past
environmental conditions as new tools continue to be discovered and developed. To date …

Synchronous tropical and polar temperature evolution in the Eocene

MJ Cramwinckel, M Huber, IJ Kocken, C Agnini, PK Bijl… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Palaeoclimate reconstructions of periods with warm climates and high atmospheric CO2
concentrations are crucial for developing better projections of future climate change. Deep …

Nitrosopumilus maritimus gen. nov., sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus cobalaminigenes sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus oxyclinae sp. nov., and Nitrosopumilus ureiphilus sp. nov., four marine …

W Qin, KR Heal, R Ramdasi… - … of systematic and …, 2017 - microbiologyresearch.org
Four mesophilic, neutrophilic, and aerobic marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea, designated
strains SCM1T, HCA1T, HCE1T and PS0T, were isolated from a tropical marine fish tank …

Influence of temperature, pH, and salinity on membrane lipid composition and TEX86 of marine planktonic thaumarchaeal isolates

FJ Elling, M Könneke, M Mußmann, A Greve… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are a cosmopolitan
group of microorganisms representing a major fraction of the picoplankton in the ocean. The …

Effects of growth phase on the membrane lipid composition of the thaumarchaeon Nitrosopumilus maritimus and their implications for archaeal lipid distributions in the …

FJ Elling, M Könneke, JS Lipp, KW Becker… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
The characteristic glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipids (GDGTs) of
marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are widely used as biomarkers for studying their …

A lacustrine GDGT-temperature calibration from the Scandinavian Arctic to Antarctic: Renewed potential for the application of GDGT-paleothermometry in lakes

EJ Pearson, S Juggins, HM Talbot, J Weckström… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
Quantitative climate reconstructions are fundamental to understand long-term trends in
natural climate variability and to test climate models used to predict future climate change …

Functional assignment of metagenomic data: challenges and applications

T Prakash, TD Taylor - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Metagenomic sequencing provides a unique opportunity to explore earth's limitless
environments harboring scores of yet unknown and mostly unculturable microbes and other …

Intact polar and core glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids of group I. 1a and I. 1b Thaumarchaeota in soil

JS Sinninghe Damstï¿ ½, WIC Rijpstra… - Applied and …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Ecological studies of thaumarchaeota often apply glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether
(GDGT)-based intact membrane lipids. However, these components have only been …

Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: extracting reliable TEX86 and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African …

JSS Damsté, J Ossebaar, S Schouten… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
The distribution of isoprenoid and branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) lipids
was studied in the sedimentary record of Lake Challa, a permanently stratified, partly anoxic …