The uronic acid content of coccolith-associated polysaccharides provides insight into coccolithogenesis and past climate

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lee, Renee B Y ^a,b   Mavridou, Despoina A I ^c,d   Papadakos, Grigorios ^d   McClelland, Harry L O ^a   Rickaby, Rosalind E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBOXYL GROUP; POLYSACCHARIDE; URONIC ACID; CARBON;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COCCOLITH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; NUCLEATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COCCOLITH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HAPTOPHYTA; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ADAPTATION; BONE MINERALIZATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FOSSIL; HISTORY; METABOLISM; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FOSSILS; HAPTOPHYTA; HISTORY, ANCIENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYSACCHARIDES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URONIC ACIDS;

EID: 84992539253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13144     Document Type: Article

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