Ether- and Ester-Bound iso-Diabolic Acid and Other Lipids in Members of Acidobacteria Subdivision 4

JS Sinninghe Damsté, WIC Rijpstra… - Applied and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Recently, iso-diabolic acid (13, 16-dimethyl octacosanedioic acid) has been
identified as a major membrane-spanning lipid of subdivisions 1 and 3 of the Acidobacteria …

Ubiquitous production of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) in global marine environments: a new source indicator for brGDGTs

W Xiao, Y Wang, S Zhou, L Hu, H Yang, Y Xu - Biogeosciences, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
Presumed source specificity of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) from
bacteria thriving in soil/peat and isoprenoid GDGTs (iGDGTs) from aquatic organisms led to …

Validating the potential application of δ2Hwax and soil brGDGTs in paleoelevation estimates on the southern slopes of the Himalaya

X Li, S Liu, B Fan, J Hou, M Wang - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Paleoelevation reconstructions of the Himalayan mountains and Tibetan Plateau have been
a focus of geoscientists, as they can improve our understanding of the temporal evolution of …

Core and intact polar glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in Sand Pond, Warwick, Rhode Island (USA): Insights into the origin of lacustrine GDGTs

JE Tierney, S Schouten, A Pitcher, EC Hopmans… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
Branched and isoprenoidal glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are abundant in
lake sediments and have potential use for determining past changes in climate and …

Holocene warming trend based on peat brGDGTs records from southeastern humid to northwestern arid China

S Wei, Z Rao, J Cao, G Jia, Y Li, H Guo, Z Feng… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent syntheses of marine paleoclimate records have revealed an overall long-term
Holocene warming trend, especially in mean annual temperature (MAT), which is …

Peat brGDGTs-based Holocene temperature history of the Altai Mountains in arid Central Asia

D Wu, J Cao, G Jia, H Guo, F Shi, X Zhang… - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to their effects on snow/ice melting in mountains and evaporation in basins,
temperature variations are an important influence on the hydrological cycle and water …

Archaeal and bacterial glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids in hot springs of Yellowstone National Park

S Schouten, MTJ van der Meer… - Applied and …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are core membrane lipids originally thought to
be produced mainly by (hyper) thermophilic archaea. Environmental screening of low …

Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials

PJ Fawcett, JP Werne, RS Anderson, JM Heikoop… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The potential for increased drought frequency and severity linked to anthropogenic climate
change in the semi-arid regions of the southwestern United States (US) is a serious concern …

Distribution of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in surface soils of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau: implications of brGDGTs-based proxies in cold and dry …

S Ding, Y Xu, Y Wang, Y He, J Hou, L Chen… - …, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
The methylation index of branched tetraethers (MBT) and cyclization ratio of branched
tetraethers (CBT) based on the distribution of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers …

Biomarker reconstruction of the early Eocene paleotopography and paleoclimate of the northern Sierra Nevada

MT Hren, M Pagani, DM Erwin, M Brandon - Geology, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We reconstruct ancient temperature and elevation gradients across the early Eocene (52–49
Ma) northern Sierra Nevada (California, United States) using organic molecular proxies that …