Does fossil pigment and DNA data from Mediterranean sediments invalidate the use of green sulfur bacterial pigments and their diagenetic derivatives as proxies for the assessment of past photic zone euxinia?

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1392-1399

  Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a   Hopmans, Ellen C ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 43449101534     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01609.x     Document Type: Article

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