Fossilized glycolipids reveal past oceanic N2 fixation by heterocystous cyanobacteria

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 19190-19194

  Bauersachs, Thorsten ^a,c   Speelman, Eveline N ^b   Hopmans, Ellen C ^a   Reichart, Gert Jan ^b   Schouten, Stefan ^a   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanobacterial biomarkers; Intact polar lipids; Nitrogen fixation; Saproprel; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

GLYCOLIPID; NITROGEN; SURFACE WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYANOBACTERIUM; EPIPHYTE; FOSSIL; LIPID ANALYSIS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPROPEL; SEA; SEDIMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

AZOLLA; AZOLLA FILICULOIDES; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 78650588406     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007526107     Document Type: Article

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