Evaluating global temperature calibrations for lacustrine branched GDGTs: Seasonal variability, paleoclimate implications, and future directions

B Zhao, JM Russell, VC Tsai, A Blaus… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) preserved in lake sediments are
increasingly used to investigate past terrestrial temperatures. brGDGTs are ubiquitous in …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of the occurrence of ether-and ester-linked iso-diabolic acid membrane lipids in microbial cultures of the Acidobacteria: Implications for brGDGT …

JSS Damsté, WIC Rijpstra, BU Foesel, KJ Huber… - Organic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Dimethyl octacosanedioic acid (iso-diabolic acid) is a major membrane-spanning lipid of
subdivisions (SDs) 1, 3 and 4 of the Acidobacteria, a highly diverse phylum within the …

The production of diverse brGDGTs by an Acidobacterium providing a physiological basis for paleoclimate proxies

Y Chen, F Zheng, H Yang, W Yang, R Wu, X Liu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial lipid biomarkers preserved in geological archives can be used to explore past
climate changes. Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are unique …

The effect of improved chromatography on GDGT-based palaeoproxies

EC Hopmans, S Schouten, JSS Damsté - Organic Geochemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
The development of methods using liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry to
analyze glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) has substantially expanded the …

[HTML][HTML] BayMBT: A Bayesian calibration model for branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils and peats

ED Crampton-Flood, JE Tierney, F Peterse… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate temperature records for the deep geological past are a vital component of
paleoclimate research. Distributional changes of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol …

[HTML][HTML] Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids

BDA Naafs, GN Inglis, Y Zheng, MJ Amesbury… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are membrane-spanning lipids from Bacteria
and Archaea that are ubiquitous in a range of natural archives and especially abundant in …

Refining the global branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (brGDGT) soil temperature calibration

BDA Naafs, AV Gallego-Sala, GN Inglis… - Organic …, 2017 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are increasingly used to
reconstruct past terrestrial temperature and soil pH. Here we compare all available modern …

Lipid biomarker temperature proxy responds to abrupt shift in the bacterial community composition in geothermally heated soils

C De Jonge, D Radujković, BD Sigurdsson… - Organic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Specific soil bacterial membrane lipids, branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers
(brGDGTs), are used as an empirical proxy for past continental temperatures. Their …

Evidence of moisture control on the methylation of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in semi-arid and arid soils

X Dang, H Yang, BDA Naafs, RD Pancost… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
The distribution of bacterial branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) is
influenced by growth temperature and pH. This results in the widespread application of the …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of soil chemistry on branched tetraether lipids in mid-and high latitude soils: Implications for brGDGT-based paleothermometry

C De Jonge, EE Kuramae, D Radujković… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (BrGDGTs) are a suite of orphan bacterial
membrane lipids commonly used as paleo-environmental proxies for mean annual air …