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1 Köster, Jürgen, et al. "Mono-, Di- and Trimethyl-branched Alkanes in Cultures of the Filamentous Cyanobacterium Calothrix Scopulorum." Organic Geochemistry 30 (1999): 1367-79.
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Brooks, C. J. W., E. C. Horning, and J. S. Young. "Characterization of Sterols by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry of the Trimethylsilyl Ethers." Lipids 3, no. 5 (1968): 391-402.

Sturt, Helen F., et al. "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." Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 18 (2004): 617-28.
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Schouten, Stefan, et al. "Distributional Variations in Marine Crenarchaeotal Membrane Lipids: A New Tool for Reconstructing Ancient Sea Water Temperatures?" Earth and Planetary Science Letters 204 (2002): 265-74.

Wuchter, Cornelia, et al. "Temperature-dependent Variation in the Distribution of Tetraether Membrane Lipids of Marine Crenarchaeota: Implications for TEX86 Paleothermometry." Paleoceanography 19, no. PA4028 (2004): 1-10.

Schouten, Stefan, Ellen C. Hopmans, Astrid Forster, Yvonne van Breugel, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, and Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté. "Extremely High Sea-surface Temperatures at Low Latitudes During the Middle Cretaceous as Revealed by Archaeal Membrane Lipids." Geology 31, no. 12 (2003): 1069-72.

Turich, Courtney, Katherine H. Freeman, Mary Ann Bruns, Maureen Conte, A. Daniel Jones, and Stuart G. Wakeham. "Lipids of Marine Archaea: Patterns and Provenance in the Water-column and Sediments." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71 (2007): 3272-91.

Schouten, Stefan, Marcel T. J. van der Meer, Ellen C. Hopmans, and Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté. "Comment on "Lipids of Marine Archaea: Patterns and Provenance in the Water Column and Sediments." by Turich et al." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72 (2008): 5342-6.
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Tchen, T. T., and Konrad Bloch. "On the Mechanism of Enzymatic Cyclization of Squalene*." The Journal of Biological Chemistry (1956): 931-939. (From the Converse Memorial Chemical Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts) (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Jahnke, Linda, and Harold P. Klein. "Oxygen Requirements for Formation and Activity of the Squalene Epoxidase in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae." Journal of Bacteriology 155, no. 2 (August 1983): 488-92.

Kopp, Robert E., Joseph L. Kirschvink, Isaac A. Hilburn, and Cody Z. Nash. "The Paleoproterozoic Snowball Earth: A Climate Disaster Triggered by the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis." PNAS 102, no. 32 (August 9, 2005): 11131–6.
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Raymond, Jason, and Daniel Segrè. "The Effect of Oxygen on Biochemical Networks and the Evolution of Complex Life." Science 311 (March 24, 2006): 1764-7.

Kodner, Robin B., Roger E. Summons, Ann Pearson, Nicole King, and Andrew H. Knoll. "Sterols in a Unicellular Relative of the Metazoans." PNAS 105, no. 29 (July 2008): 9897–902.

Kodner, R. B., A. Pearson, R. E. Summons, and A. H. Knoll. "Sterols in Red and Green Algae: Quantification, Phylogeny, and Relevance for the Interpretation of Geologic Steranes." Geobiology 6 (2008): 411–20. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
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Neunlist, Serge, and Michel Rohmer. "A Novel Hopanoid, 30-(5'-adenosyl)Hopane, from the Purple Non-sulphur Bacterium Rhodopseudomonas Acidophila, with Possible DNA Interactions." Biochem J 228 (1985): 769-71.

Doughty, D. M., et al. "2-Methylhopanoids are Maximally Produced in Akinetes of Nostoc Punctiforme: Geobiological Implications." Geobiology 7 (2009): 524–32.

Welander, Paula V., et al. "Identification of a Methylase Required for 2-methylhopanoid Production and Implications for the Interpretation of Sedimentary Hopanes." PNAS (Janaury 2010): 1-6.

Poralla, Karl, et al. "Hopanoids are Formed During Transition from Substrate to Aerial Hyphae in Streptomyces Coelicolor A3(2)." FEMS Microbiology Letters 189 (2000): 93-5.

Härtner, Thomas, et al. "Occurrence of Hopanoid Lipids in Anaerobic Geobacter Species." FEMS Microbiology Letters 243 (2005): 59–64.

Fischer, W. W., et al. "Targeted Genomic Detection of Biosynthetic Pathways: Anaerobic Production of Hopanoid Biomarkers by a Common Sedimentary Microbe." Geobiology 3 (2005): 33–40.

Kannenberg, Elmar L., and Karl Poralla. "Hopanoid Biosynthesis and Function in Bacteria." Naturwissenschaften 86 (1999): 168–76.
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Cao, Changqun, et al. "Biogeochemical Evidence for Euxinic Oceans and Ecological Disturbance Presaging the End-Permian Mass Extinction Event." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 281, no. 3-4 (2009): 188–201.

Xie, Shucheng, Richard D. Pancost, Junhua Huang, Paul B. Wignall, Jianxin Yu, Xinyan Tang, Lin Chen, Xianyu Huan, and Xulong Lai. "Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle Occurred as Two Episodes during the Permian–Triassic Crisis." Geology 35, no. 12 (December 2007): 1083–6.

Larcher, Alfons V., et al. "Changes in Configuration of Extended Moretanes with Increasing Sediment Maturity." Organic Geochemistry 11, no. 2 (1987): 59-63.

Eigenbrode, Jennifer L., et al. "Methylhopane Biomarker Hydrocarbons in Hamersley Province Sediments Provide Evidence for Neoarchean Aerobiosis." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 273 (2008): 323–31.
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Murray, Andrew P., et al. "Carbon Isotope Biogeochemistry of Plant Resins and Derived Hydrocarbons." Organic Geochemistry 29, no. 5-7 (1998): 1199-214

Speelman, Eveline N., et al. "Modeling the Influence of a Reduced Equator-to-pole Sea Surface Temperature Gradient on the Distribution of Water Isotopes in the Early/Middle Eocene." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 298 (2010): 57–65.
9 Brocks, Jochen J., Gordon D. Love, Roger E. Summons, Andrew H. Knoll, Graham A. Logan, and Stephen A. Bowden. "Biomarker Evidence for Green and Purple Sulphur Bacteria in a Stratified Palaeoproterozoic Sea." Nature 437, no.6 (October 6, 2005): 866-70.
10 Summons, Roger E., Pierre Albrecht, Gene McDonald, and J. Michael Moldowan. "Molecular Biosignatures." Space Sci Rev 135 (2008): 133–59.