[HTML][HTML] Decoupled warming and monsoon precipitation in East Asia over the last deglaciation

F Peterse, MA Prins, CJ Beets, SR Troelstra… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Our understanding of the continental climate development in East Asia is mainly based on
loess–paleosol sequences and summer monsoon precipitation reconstructions based on …

Fluxes and distribution of tetraether lipids in an equatorial African lake: constraints on the application of the TEX86 palaeothermometer and BIT index in lacustrine …

JSS Damsté, J Ossebaar, B Abbas, S Schouten… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2009 - Elsevier
The distribution of isoprenoid and branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) lipids
was studied in material from various sources in and around Lake Challa, a crater lake on the …

Variations in dissolved O2 in a Chinese lake drive changes in microbial communities and impact sedimentary GDGT distributions

J Wu, H Yang, RD Pancost, BDA Naafs, S Qian… - Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are widespread but unique membrane-
spanning lipids of many Archaea and some Bacteria. However, their specific biological …

[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 …

Ancient biomolecules: their origins, fossilization, and role in revealing the history of life

DEG Briggs, RE Summons - BioEssays, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of traces of a blood meal in the abdomen of a 50‐million‐year‐old mosquito
reminds us of the insights that the chemistry of fossils can provide. Ancient DNA is the best …

Constraints on the application of the MBT/CBT palaeothermometer at high latitude environments (Svalbard, Norway)

F Peterse, JH Kim, S Schouten, DK Kristensen… - Organic …, 2009 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are membrane lipids of unknown
bacteria that are ubiquitous in soil and peat. Two indices based on the distribution of these …

Calibration and application of the branched GDGT temperature proxy on East African lake sediments

SE Loomis, JM Russell, B Ladd… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are a novel proxy for mean annual
air temperature (MAAT) and have the potential to be broadly applicable to climate …

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 …

Coupled thermal and hydrological evolution of tropical Africa over the last deglaciation

JWH Weijers, E Schefuß, S Schouten, JSS Damsté - Science, 2007 - science.org
We analyzed the distribution of branched tetraether membrane lipids derived from soil
bacteria in a marine sediment record that was recovered close to the Congo River outflow …

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 …