Sedimentary membrane lipids recycled by deep-sea benthic archaea

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 858-861

  Takano, Yoshinori ^a   Chikaraishi, Yoshito ^a   Ogawa, Nanako O ^a   Nomaki, Hidetaka ^a   Morono, Yuki ^a   Inagaki, Fumio ^a   Kitazato, Hiroshi ^a   Hinrichs, Kai Uwe ^b   Ohkouchi, Naohiko ^a,c,d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; GLUCOSE; ISOPRENOID; LIPID; MEMBRANE; PROKARYOTE; SEAFLOOR;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; SAGAMI BAY;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 78649879980     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo983     Document Type: Article

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