… In this Review, we explore recent work that has been done to link lipid biomarkers to their
biological … those concerning the nature and history of early microbial life. Lipids as biomarkers …

… Chemical measures for the biomass, community structure and nutritional status of microbial
consortia based on analysis of lipid biomarkers provide a quantitative definition useful for …

… Our main point is that a search for lipid biomarkers should include tests for deviation from
abiotic products such as those present in carbonaceous meteorites or synthesized by the …

… on Earth, which is why they are considered useful biomarkers for life detection in terrestrial
… of microbial life, which grants lipids a universal biomarker character suitable for life detection …

… In regards to Mars, the biomarkers from lipids and biopolymers would be expected to be …
biomarkers of individual species of microbes need to be elucidated for reference (in both lipids …

… In order to obtain more information about lipids produced by extant microbes with affinities
to geologically ancient groups, and given our focus on oxygenic photosynthesis and the …

… Microbial lipid biomarkers have been successfully extracted from cold‐seep carbonates,
sampled at the seafloor, by a Soxtec ® System with dichloromethane and MeOH (9 : 1; v/v) as …

… this to include comprehensive biomarker analyses … microbial communities that thrive in this
unusual setting. We also compare the lipid distribution of the ‘dirty ice’ samples with microbial …

… Surprisingly, the lipid biomarkers resisted the earliest stages of microbial degradation and
diagenesis to survive in the iron oxides beneath the mats. Understanding the potential of …

… lipid biomarker signatures for a chemotaxonomic identification of the three known AOM
communities. The lipid … to use multiple lipid signatures for a robust identification of the dominating …