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List of works by Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

24th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Bremen, Germany, September 6–11, 2009

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A hypersaline microbial mat from the Pacific Atoll Kiritimati: insights into composition and carbon fixation using biomarker analyses and a 13C-labeling approach.

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A micrometer-scale snapshot on phototroph spatial distributions: mass spectrometry imaging of microbial mats in Octopus Spring, Yellowstone National Park

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

A multiple proxy and model study of Cretaceous upper ocean temperatures and atmospheric CO2concentrations

Acetogenesis in Deep Subseafloor Sediments of The Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank: A Synthesis of Geochemical, Thermodynamic, and Gene-based Evidence

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An improved method for the analysis of archaeal and bacterial ether core lipids

An interlaboratory study of TEX86and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts, and standard mixtures

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Anaerobic methanotrophic community of a 5346-m-deep vesicomyid clam colony in the Japan Trench

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Application of two new LC–ESI–MS methods for improved detection of intact polar lipids (IPLs) in environmental samples

article published in 2013

Assessing production of the ubiquitous archaeal diglycosyl tetraether lipids in marine subsurface sediment using intramolecular stable isotope probing

scientific article published on 04 October 2012

Assessing sub-seafloor microbial activity by combined stable isotope probing with deuterated water and 13C-bicarbonate

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Assessing the carbon assimilation and production of benthic archaeal lipid biomarkers using lipid-RIP

Assimilation of methane and inorganic carbon by microbial communities mediating the anaerobic oxidation of methane

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Autotrophy as a predominant mode of carbon fixation in anaerobic methane-oxidizing microbial communities

scientific article (publication date: 20 November 2012)

Bacterial symbionts of Bathymodiolus mussels and Escarpia tubeworms from Chapopote, an asphalt seep in the Southern Gulf of Mexico

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Biological formation of ethane and propane in the deep marine subsurface

scientific article (publication date: 3 October 2006)

Biology of a widespread uncultivated archaeon that contributes to carbon fixation in the subsurface

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

Biomarkers, chemistry and microbiology show chemoautotrophy in a multilayer chemocline in the Cariaco Basin

scholarly article by Stuart G. Wakeham published in May 2012

Carbon flow from volcanic CO2 into soil microbial communities of a wetland mofette

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Carbon isotope equilibration during sulphate-limited anaerobic oxidation of methane

Carbon isotope fractionation by the marine ammonia-oxidizing archaeon Nitrosopumilus maritimus

Chemotaxonomic characterisation of the thaumarchaeal lipidome

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

Comprehensive glycerol ether lipid fingerprints through a novel reversed phase liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry protocol

Core-top calibration of the lipid-based U37K′ and TEX86 temperature proxies on the southern Italian shelf (SW Adriatic Sea, Gulf of Taranto)

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Corrigendum to “Impact of hot fluid advection on hydrocarbon gas production and seepage in mud volcano sediments of thick Cenozoic deltas” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 341–344 (2012) 139–157]

scholarly article by Marianne Nuzzo et al published December 2012 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Cultivable microbial community in 2-km-deep, 20-million-year-old subseafloor coalbeds through ~1000 days anaerobic bioreactor cultivation

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Cyclic 100-ka (glacial-interglacial) migration of subseafloor redox zonation on the Peruvian shelf

scientific article (publication date: 5 November 2013)

DEEP BIOSPHERE. Exploring deep microbial life in coal-bearing sediment down to ~2.5 km below the ocean floor.

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Deep-biosphere methane production stimulated by geofluids in the Nankai accretionary complex.

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Detection of microbial biomass by intact polar membrane lipid analysis in the water column and surface sediments of the Black Sea.

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Detection of microbial biomass in subseafloor sediment by pyrolysis⿿GC/MS

Diagenetic transformation of dissolved organic nitrogen compounds under contrasting sedimentary redox conditions in the Black Sea.

scientific article published on 13 May 2011

Distribution and isotopic composition of trimethylamine, dimethylsulfide and dimethylsulfoniopropionate in marine sediments

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Distribution and stable isotopes of plant wax derived n-alkanes in lacustrine, fluvial and marine surface sediments along an Eastern Italian transect and their potential to reconstruct the hydrological cycle

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Distribution of glycerol ether lipids in the oxygen minimum zone of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean

Distribution of intact and core GDGTs in marine sediments

Distribution of intact and core tetraether lipids in water column profiles of suspended particulate matter off Cape Blanc, NW Africa

Distribution of polar membrane lipids in permafrost soils and sediments of a small high Arctic catchment

scholarly article by Janet Rethemeyer et al published October 2010 in Organic Geochemistry

Distributions of Microbial Activities in Deep Subseafloor Sediments

scientific article published in Science

Downsizing the Deep Biosphere

scientific article published in Science

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Effect of Storage Conditions on Archaeal and Bacterial Communities in Subsurface Marine Sediments

Effects of growth phase on the membrane lipid composition of the thaumarchaeon Nitrosopumilus maritimus and their implications for archaeal lipid distributions in the marine environment

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Environmental Breviatea harbour mutualistic Arcobacter epibionts

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Environmental controls on intragroup diversity of the uncultured benthic archaea of the miscellaneous Crenarchaeotal group lineage naturally enriched in anoxic sediments of the White Oak River estuary (North Carolina, USA).

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Ethane- and propane-producing potential and molecular characterization of an ethanogenic enrichment in an anoxic estuarine sediment

Evidence for microbial carbon and sulfur cycling in deeply buried ridge flank basalt

scientific article published in March 2013

Experimental investigation on the controls of clumped isotopologue and hydrogen isotope ratios in microbial methane

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Experimental studies on the stable carbon isotope biogeochemistry of acetate in lake sediments

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Exploration of cultivable fungal communities in deep coal-bearing sediments from ∼1.3 to 2.5 km below the ocean floor.

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Extending the analytical window for water-soluble organic matter in sediments by aqueous Soxhlet extraction

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Extending the known range of glycerol ether lipids in the environment: structural assignments based on tandem mass spectral fragmentation patterns

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Factors controlling the distribution of anaerobic methanotrophic communities in marine environments: Evidence from intact polar membrane lipids

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Fervidicoccus fontis gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic crenarchaeote from terrestrial hot springs, and proposal of Fervidicoccaceae fam. nov. and Fervidicoccales ord. nov.

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From ether to acid: A plausible degradation pathway of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers

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Functional structure of laminated microbial sediments from a supratidal sandy beach of the German Wadden Sea (St. Peter-Ording)

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Gas chromatographic analysis of methanol and ethanol in marine sediment pore waters: Validation and implementation of three pretreatment techniques

scholarly article by Guang-Chao Zhuang published in March 2014

Gas flux and carbonate occurrence at a shallow seep of thermogenic natural gas

article by Franklin S. Kinnaman et al published 20 February 2010 in Geo-Marine Letters

Genomic evidence for distinct carbon substrate preferences and ecological niches of Bathyarchaeota in estuarine sediments

scientific article published on 2 December 2015

Genomic inference of the metabolism of cosmopolitan subsurface Archaea, Hadesarchaea

scientific article published on 15 February 2016

Genomic reconstruction of a novel, deeply branched sediment archaeal phylum with pathways for acetogenesis and sulfur reduction

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Geochemical and microbiological fingerprinting of airborne dust that fell in Canberra, Australia, in October 2002

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Global diversity of microbial communities in marine sediment

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Global rates of marine sulfate reduction and implications for sub-sea-floor metabolic activities

scientific article published on 8 May 2014

Heat Stress Dictates Microbial Lipid Composition along a Thermal Gradient in Marine Sediments

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2006)

Heterotrophic bacteria from an extremely phosphate-poor lake have conditionally reduced phosphorus demand and utilize diverse sources of phosphorus

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

High rates of anaerobic methane oxidation in freshwater wetlands reduce potential atmospheric methane emissions

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Hot fluids, burial metamorphism and thermal histories in the underthrust sediments at IODP 370 site C0023, Nankai Accretionary Complex

Hydroxylated isoprenoid GDGTs in Chinese coastal seas and their potential as a paleotemperature proxy for mid-to-low latitude marginal seas

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Hypersaline conditions during deposition of the Calcare di Base revealed from archaeal di- and tetraether inventories

IODP Expedition 337: Deep Coalbed Biosphere off Shimokita – Microbial processes and hydrocarbon system associated with deeply buried coalbed in the ocean

scientific article published in 2016

Identification and significance of unsaturated archaeal tetraether lipids in marine sediments.

scientific article published on May 2014

Identification of isoprenoid glycosidic glycerol dibiphytanol diethers and indications for their biosynthetic origin

Identification of polar lipid precursors of the ubiquitous branched GDGT orphan lipids in a peat bog in Northern Germany

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Identification of unusual butanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraether and pentanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids in marine sediments.

scientific article published in February 2014

Impact of hot fluid advection on hydrocarbon gas production and seepage in mud volcano sediments of thick Cenozoic deltas

scholarly article by Marianne Nuzzo et al published August 2012 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Improved sensitivity of sedimentary phospholipid analysis resulting from a novel extract cleanup strategy

In situ production of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in a great basin hot spring (USA).

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In situ production of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in anoxic marine water columns

scholarly article by Xiao-Lei Liu published in November 2014

Influence of ammonia oxidation rate on thaumarchaeal lipid composition and the TEX86 temperature proxy

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

Influence of temperature, pH, and salinity on membrane lipid composition and TEX 86 of marine planktonic thaumarchaeal isolates

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Insights into chemotaxonomic composition and carbon cycling of phototrophic communities in an artesian sulfur-rich spring (Zodletone, Oklahoma, USA), a possible analog for ancient microbial mat systems.

scientific article published on 19 January 2011

Intact Ether Lipids in Trench Sediments Related to Archaeal Community and Environmental Conditions in the Deepest Ocean

scientific article published in 2020

Intact polar lipids of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea and associated bacteria

article by Pamela E Rossel et al published August 2008 in Organic Geochemistry

Intact polar membrane lipids in prokaryotes and sediments deciphered by high-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization multistage mass spectrometry--new biomarkers for biogeochemistry and microbial ecology.

scientific article published in January 2004

Intramolecular stable carbon isotopic analysis of archaeal glycosyl tetraether lipids

scientific article published on 01 October 2010

Isoprenoid glycerol dialkanol diethers: A series of novel archaeal lipids in marine sediments

Isoprenoid quinones resolve the stratification of microbial redox processes in a biogeochemical continuum from the photic zone to deep anoxic sediments of the Black Sea.

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

Lipid biomarker patterns of methane-seep microbialites from the Mesozoic convergent margin of California

Metabolic variability in seafloor brines revealed by carbon and sulphur dynamics

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Methane Index: A tetraether archaeal lipid biomarker indicator for detecting the instability of marine gas hydrates

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Methane cycling. Nonequilibrium clumped isotope signals in microbial methane

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Methane in shallow cold seeps at Mocha Island off central Chile

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Methane-Producing Microbial Community in a Coal Bed of the Illinois Basin.

scientific article published in June 2008

Methane-consuming archaebacteria in marine sediments

scientific article (publication date: 29 April 1999)

Methane-producing microbial community in a coal bed of the Illinois basin

scientific article published on 29 February 2008

Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus modulates its membrane lipids in response to hydrogen and nutrient availability

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Methanotrophic archaea possessing diverging methane-oxidizing and electron-transporting pathways

scientific article published on 12 December 2013

Microbial Communities and Organic Matter Composition in Surface and Subsurface Sediments of the Helgoland Mud Area, North Sea.

scientific article published on 25 November 2015

Microbial Communities in Methane- and Short Chain Alkane-Rich Hydrothermal Sediments of Guaymas Basin

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

Microbial Sulfate Reduction Potential in Coal-Bearing Sediments Down to ~2.5 km below the Seafloor off Shimokita Peninsula, Japan

scientific article published on 05 October 2016

Microbial diversity of hydrothermal sediments in the Guaymas Basin: evidence for anaerobic methanotrophic communities

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Microbial dormancy in the marine subsurface: Global endospore abundance and response to burial

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Microbial fixation of methane carbon at 2.7 Ga: Was an anaerobic mechanism possible?

article by Kai-Uwe Hinrichs published July 2002 in G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Microbial lipids reveal carbon assimilation patterns on hydrothermal sulfide chimneys

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Molecular and isotopic partitioning of low-molecular-weight hydrocarbons during migration and gas hydrate precipitation in deposits of a high-flux seepage site

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Molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter in pore water of continental shelf sediments

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Molecular fossil record of elevated methane levels in late Pleistocene coastal waters

scientific article (publication date: 21 February 2003)

Molecular isotopic evidence of environmental and ecological changes across the Cenomanian–Turonian boundary in the Levant Platform of central Jordan

Mono- and dihydroxyl glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers in marine sediments: Identification of both core and intact polar lipid forms

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Multiple archaeal groups mediate methane oxidation in anoxic cold seep sediments

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Multiple evidence for methylotrophic methanogenesis as the dominant methanogenic pathway in hypersaline sediments from the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico

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Near-surface Heating of Young Rift Sediment Causes Mass Production and Discharge of Reactive Dissolved Organic Matter.

scientific article published on 22 March 2017

Novel Cardiolipins from Uncultured Methane-Metabolizing Archaea

scientific article published on May 14, 2012

Novel cultivation-based approach to understanding the miscellaneous crenarchaeotic group (MCG) archaea from sedimentary ecosystems

scientific article published on 09 August 2013

Online δ 13 C analysis of volatile fatty acids in sediment/porewater systems by liquid chromatography-isotope ratio mass spectrometry

scientific article published in 2006

Origin and fate of acetate in an acidic fen.

scientific article published on 4 April 2012

Pelolinea submarina gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, filamentous bacterium of the phylum Chloroflexi isolated from subseafloor sediment

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Petroleum degradation and associated microbial signatures at the Chapopote asphalt volcano, Southern Gulf of Mexico

scholarly article by Florence Schubotz et al published August 2011 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of Planctomycetes from anaerobic, sulfide- and sulfur-rich Zodletone Spring, Oklahoma

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Possible roles of uncultured archaea in carbon cycling in methane-seep sediments

article by Marcos Y. Yoshinaga et al published September 2015 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Production rates of bacterial tetraether lipids and fatty acids in peatland under varying oxygen concentrations

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Rapid and simultaneous analysis of three molecular sea surface temperature proxies and application to sediments from the Sea of Marmara

Rapid resurgence of marine productivity after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction

scientific article published in October 2009

Reconstruction of past methane availability in an Arctic Alaska wetland indicates climate influenced methane release during the past ~12,000 years

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Relative Importance of Chemoautotrophy for Primary Production in a Light Exposed Marine Shallow Hydrothermal System

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Relative importance of methylotrophic methanogenesis in sediments of the Western Mediterranean Sea

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Repeated pulses of vertical methane flux recorded in glacial sediments from the southeast Bering Sea

Respiratory quinones in Archaea: phylogenetic distribution and application as biomarkers in the marine environment

scientific article published on 16 October 2015

Rock weathering creates oases of life in a high Arctic desert.

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Secondary production and priming reshape the organic matter composition in marine sediments

scientific article published on 17 May 2024

Sedimentary membrane lipids recycled by deep-sea benthic archaea

Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments

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Sources, transport, and partitioning of organic matter at a highly dynamic continental margin

scholarly article by Frauke Schmidt published in January 2010

Stable carbon isotopic compositions of intact polar lipids reveal complex carbon flow patterns among hydrocarbon degrading microbial communities at the Chapopote asphalt volcano

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Starvation and recovery in the deep-sea methanotroph Methyloprofundus sedimenti

scientific article published on 14 October 2016

Stratification of archaeal membrane lipids in the ocean and implications for adaptation and chemotaxonomy of planktonic archaea

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

Structural diversity and fate of intact polar lipids in marine sediments

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Structural diversity of diether lipids in carbonate chimneys at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field

Symbiont–host relationships in chemosynthetic mussels: A comprehensive lipid biomarker study

Systematic fragmentation patterns of archaeal intact polar lipids by high-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization ion-trap mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

Temperature limits to deep subseafloor life in the Nankai Trough subduction zone

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The Proteome and Lipidome of Thermococcus kodakarensis across the Stationary Phase

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

The archaeal lipidome in estuarine sediment dominated by members of the Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotal Group

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The biogeochemistry of sorbed methane in marine sediments

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The novel extremely acidophilic, cell-wall-deficient archaeon Cuniculiplasma divulgatum gen. nov., sp. nov. represents a new family, Cuniculiplasmataceae fam. nov., of the order Thermoplasmatales

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The stable carbon isotope biogeochemistry of acetate and other dissolved carbon species in deep subseafloor sediments at the northern Cascadia Margin

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Thermococcus kodakarensis modulates its polar membrane lipids and elemental composition according to growth stage and phosphate availability

scientific article published on 30 January 2014

Thermophilic anaerobic oxidation of methane by marine microbial consortia

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Time integrated variation of sources of fluids and seepage dynamics archived in authigenic carbonates from Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrate Seafloor Observatory

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Towards constraining H2 concentration in subseafloor sediment: A proposal for combined analysis by two distinct approaches

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Towards multiproxy, ultra-high resolution molecular stratigraphy: Enabling laser-induced mass spectrometry imaging of diverse molecular biomarkers in sediments

Tracing the production and fate of individual archaeal intact polar lipids using stable isotope probing

article published in 2016

Turnover of microbial lipids in the deep biosphere and growth of benthic archaeal populations

scientific article (publication date: 9 April 2013)

Ultra-high-resolution paleoenvironmental records via direct laser-based analysis of lipid biomarkers in sediment core samples

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Unraveling signatures of biogeochemical processes and the depositional setting in the molecular composition of pore water DOM across different marine environments

Unusual Butane- and Pentanetriol-Based Tetraether Lipids in Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis, a Representative of the Seventh Order of Methanogens

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Vertical distribution of microbial lipids and functional genes in chemically distinct layers of a highly polluted meromictic lake

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What do SST proxies really tell us? A high-resolution multiproxy (UK′37, TEXH86 and foraminifera δ18O) study in the Gulf of Taranto, central Mediterranean Sea

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