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 …

Source-specific biomarkers as proxies for Arctic and Antarctic sea ice

ST Belt - Organic geochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last decade or so, certain source-specific C 25 highly branched isoprenoid (HBI)
lipid biomarkers have emerged as useful proxies for Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. Thus, IP 25 …

A novel chemical fossil of palaeo sea ice: IP25

ST Belt, G Massé, SJ Rowland, M Poulin, C Michel… - Organic …, 2007 - Elsevier
A unique and novel organic compound has been detected in sea ice samples from three
locations in the Canadian Arctic, thousands of kilometers apart. It is likely that this biomarker …

Sedimentary Hydrocarbons

JJ Brocks, RE Summons - Biogeochemistry, 2005 - books.google.com
Sedimentary Hydrocarbons Page 103 8.03 Sedimentary Hydrocarbons, Biomarkers for
Early Life JJ Brocks Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA and RE Summons …

The Arctic sea ice biomarker IP25: a review of current understanding, recommendations for future research and applications in palaeo sea ice reconstructions

ST Belt, J Müller - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
In recent years, a novel proxy for the past occurrence of Arctic sea ice has been proposed
that is based on the variable marine sedimentary abundance of an organic geochemical …

Four billion years of microbial terpenome evolution

Y Hoshino, L Villanueva - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Terpenoids, also known as isoprenoids, are the largest and most diverse class of organic
compounds in nature and are involved in many membrane-associated cellular processes …

Milking diatoms for sustainable energy: biochemical engineering versus gasoline-secreting diatom solar panels

TV Ramachandra, DM Mahapatra… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2009 - ACS Publications
In the face of increasing CO2 emissions from conventional energy (gasoline), and the
anticipated scarcity of crude oil, a worldwide effort is underway for cost-effective renewable …

The rise of the rhizosolenid diatoms

JSS Damsté, G Muyzer, B Abbas, SW Rampen… - Science, 2004 - science.org
The 18S ribosomal DNA molecular phylogeny and lipid composition of over 120 marine
diatoms showed that the capability to biosynthesize highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) …

Alkane and PAH biomarkers as tracers of terrigenous organic carbon in Arctic Ocean sediments

MB Yunker, RW Macdonald, LR Snowdon… - Organic …, 2011 - Elsevier
We present the first sedimentary biomarker study encompassing the entire Arctic Ocean. A
large data set of organic markers for terrigenous, petroleum and combustion inputs [alkanes …

Source identification of the Arctic sea ice proxy IP25

TA Brown, ST Belt, A Tatarek, CJ Mundy - Nature Communications, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Analysis of the organic geochemical biomarker IP25 in marine sediments is an
established method for carrying out palaeo sea ice reconstructions for the Arctic. Such …