Are Marine Group II Euryarchaeota significant contributors to tetraether lipids in the ocean?

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

Volumn 111, Issue 41, 2014, Pages E4285-

  Schouten, Stefan ^a   Villanueva, Laura ^a   Hopmans, Ellen C ^a   Van Dermeer, Marcel T J ^a   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHER DERIVATIVE; LIPID;

ARCHAEON; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PLANKTON;

ARCHAEA; ETHERS; LIPIDS; PLANKTON;

EID: 84907932670     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416176111     Document Type: Letter

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