Re-evaluating modern and Palaeogene GDGT distributions: Implications for SST reconstructions

KWR Taylor, M Huber, CJ Hollis… - Global and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review the TEX 86 palaeothermometer for sea surface temperature (SST)
and evaluate its application to the Palaeogene, with a focus on the principal ecological …

The microbial carbon pump: from genes to ecosystems

N Jiao, Q Zheng - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
The majority of marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is resistant to biological degradation
and thus can remain in the water column for thousands of years, constituting carbon …

Influence of deep-water derived isoprenoid tetraether lipids on the TEX86H paleothermometer in the Mediterranean Sea

JH Kim, S Schouten, M Rodrigo-Gámiz… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
The TEX 86 H paleothermometer based on isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers
(isoGDGTs) has widely been applied in various marine settings to reconstruct past sea …

Insights into the metabolism, lifestyle and putative evolutionary history of the novel archaeal phylum 'Diapherotrites'

NH Youssef, C Rinke, R Stepanauskas, I Farag… - The ISME …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The archaeal phylum 'Diapherotrites' was recently proposed based on phylogenomic
analysis of genomes recovered from an underground water seep in an abandoned gold …

Single-cell genomics shedding light on marine Thaumarchaeota diversification

H Luo, BB Tolar, BK Swan, CL Zhang… - The ISME …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Previous studies based on analysis of amoA, 16S ribosomal RNA or accA gene sequences
have established that marine Thaumarchaeota fall into two phylogenetically distinct groups …

Global biodiversity of aquatic ammonia-oxidizing archaea is partitioned by habitat

SJ Biller, AC Mosier, GF Wells, CA Francis - Frontiers in microbiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Archaea play an important role in nitrification and are, thus, inextricably linked to the global
carbon and nitrogen cycles. Since the initial discovery of an ammonia monooxygenase α …

[HTML][HTML] A trait based perspective on the biogeography of common and abundant marine bacterioplankton clades

MV Brown, M Ostrowski, JJ Grzymski, FM Lauro - Marine genomics, 2014 - Elsevier
Marine microbial communities provide much of the energy upon which all higher trophic
levels depend, particularly in open-ocean and oligotrophic systems, and play a pivotal role …

Variations in GDGT distributions through the water column in the South East Atlantic Ocean

MT Hernández-Sánchez, EMS Woodward… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
The TetraEther indeX of 86 carbon atoms (TEX 86) temperature proxy is widely used in
reconstructions of past sea surface temperature. Most current calibrations are based on …

The effect of K uroshio C urrent on nitrate dynamics in the southern E ast C hina S ea revealed by nitrate isotopic composition

W Wang, Z Yu, X Song, Z Wu, Y Yuan… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In spring 2014 (May–June), in the southern East China Sea (ECS) and east of
Taiwan, nutrient and isotope samples were collected and analyzed. Also, dissolved oxygen …

Depth‐related distribution of a key gene of the tetraether lipid biosynthetic pathway in marine T haumarchaeota

L Villanueva, S Schouten… - Environmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution of isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGT) lipids synthesized
by T haumarchaeota has been shown to be temperature‐dependent in world oceans. Depth …