Fatty acids derivatives from eukaryotic microalgae, pathways and potential applications

M Blasio, S Balzano - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The exploitation of petrochemical hydrocarbons is compromising ecosystem and human
health and biotechnological research is increasingly focusing on sustainable materials from …

Extraordinary cold episodes during the mid-Holocene in the Yangtze delta: Interruption of the earliest rice cultivating civilization

H Kajita, H Kawahata, K Wang, H Zheng, S Yang… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the estuary region of the Yangtze River (China), the oldest Neolithic civilization based on
paddy rice cultivation flourished in the mid-Holocene (7.5–4.2 cal. kyr BP). However …

[HTML][HTML] Process optimization of fucoxanthin production with Tisochrysis lutea

F Gao, I Teles, RH Wijffels, MJ Barbosa - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
To optimize fucoxanthin production in Tisochrysis lutea, the effect of different process
parameters on fucoxanthin productivity (Pfx) were evaluated using batch and continuous …

Phylogeny, alkenone profiles and ecology of Isochrysidales subclades in saline lakes: Implications for paleosalinity and paleotemperature reconstructions

Y Yao, J Zhao, RS Vachula, S Liao, G Li… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Long-chain alkenones (LCAs) produced by phylogenetically classified Groups 1 and 3
Isochrysidales are increasingly used for paleotemperature and/or paleosalinity …

Genomic and meta-genomic insights into the functions, diversity and global distribution of haptophyte algae

M Penot, JB Dacks, B Read, RG Dorrell - Applied Phycology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Haptophytes are an environmentally important phylum of eukaryotic phytoplankton, forming
the second most abundant algal group after diatoms in recent estimates of ocean …

Systematic chemotaxonomic profiling and novel paleotemperature indices based on alkenones and alkenoates: Potential for disentangling mixed species input

Y Zheng, P Heng, MH Conte, RS Vachula… - Organic Geochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
The unsaturation indices (U 37 K, U 37 K') of long chain alkenones are powerful
paleotemperature proxies and have been widely applied for sea surface temperature (SST) …

Group 2i Isochrysidales flourishes at exceedingly low growth temperatures (0 to 6° C)

S Liao, Y Huang - Organic Geochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Group 2i Isochrysidales (Haptophyta) microalgae were recently suggested to be the
main producer of the C 37: 4 alkenone in high latitude oceans with seasonal sea ice …

Appraisal of alkenone-and archaeal ether-based salinity indicators in mid-latitude Asian lakes

Y He, H Wang, B Meng, H Liu, A Zhou, M Song… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lake water salinity, an important indicator of lake hydrological conditions, is critical to
deciphering terrestrial paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes. The proportion of C …

Paleoceanographic importance of tri-and di-unsaturated alkenones through the early phase of Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 from southern high latitudes of the …

T Hasegawa, AS Goto - Organic Geochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Alkenones are biomarkers derived exclusively from species of haptophyte algae. The
relative abundance of di-to tri-unsaturated C 37 alkenones expressed as U K'37 is widely …

Abrupt freshening since the early Little Ice Age in Lake Sayram of arid central Asia inferred from an alkenone isomer proxy

Y Yao, J Lan, J Zhao, RS Vachula, H Xu… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroclimatic variations of arid central Asia (ACA) significantly impact regional ecosystems
and human civilizations. Here we present a lake water salinity record of the last 3,000 years …