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Appl Environ Microbiol, March 1998, p. 1133-1138, Vol. 64, No. 3
The Marine Science Institute, University of
California, Santa Barbara, California 93106,1
and
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, Georgia
314112
Received 30 September 1997/Accepted 23 December 1997
The kingdom Crenarchaeota is now known to include
archaea which inhabit a wide variety of low-temperature environments.
We report here lipid analyses of nonthermophilic crenarchaeotes, which
revealed the presence of cyclic and acyclic dibiphytanylglycerol tetraether lipids. Nonthermophilic crenarchaeotes appear to be a major
biological source of tetraether lipids in marine planktonic environments.
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Dibiphytanyl Ether Lipids in Nonthermophilic
Crenarchaeotes
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Aquarium Research Institute, P.O. Box 628, Moss Landing, CA 95039. Phone: (408) 775-1843. Fax: (408) 775-1645. E-mail:
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