Publication Date:
2014-10-15
Description:
Lincoln et al. (1) claim that Marine Group II Euryarchaeota (MG-II) are significant contributors to glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) lipids in the ocean and biosynthesize crenarchaeol, a membrane lipid generally attributed to Thaumarchaeota (MG-I). The authors present two lines of convergent evidence for their far-reaching claim. The first line...
Keywords:
Letters
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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