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Ding, S.; Hamm, J.N.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Spang, A. (2024). Selective lipid recruitment by an archaeal DPANN symbiont from its host. Nature Comm. 15(1): 3405. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47750-2, meer
Ding, S.; Grossi, V.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.J.; Cravo-Laureau, C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2024). Nitrogen and sulfur for phosphorus: Lipidome adaptation of anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacteria in phosphorus-deprived conditions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121(24): e2400711121. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400711121, meer
Egas, R.A.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.; Bale, N.J.; Koenen, M.; Yildiz, C.; Villanueva, L.; Sousa, D.Z.; Sánchez-Andrea, I. (2024). Acetic acid stress response of the acidophilic sulfate reducer Acididesulfobacillus acetoxydans. Environ. Microbiol. 26(2): e16565. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16565, meer
Hopmans, E.C.; Grossi, V.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.; Bale, N.J.; Cravo-Laureau, C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2024). Mono- to tetra-alkyl ether cardiolipins in a mesophilic, sulfate-reducing bacterium identified by UHPLC-HRMSn: a novel class of membrane lipids. Front. Microbiol. 15: 1404328. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1404328, meer
Sorokin, D.Y.; Elcheninov, A.G.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Kublanov, I.V. (2024). Natronoglomus mannanivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., beta-1,4-mannan utilizing natronoarchaea from hypersaline soda lakes. Front. Microbiol. 15: 1364606. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1364606, meer
Sorokin, D.Y.; Elcheninov, A.G.; Bale, N.; Sininghe Damsté, J. ; Kublanov, I.V. (2024). Natronosalvus hydrolyticus sp. nov., a beta-1,3-glucan utilizing natronoarchaeon from hypersaline soda lakes. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 47(2-3): 126514. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2024.126514, meer
Varma, D.; Hopmans, E.C.; van Kemenade, Z.R.; Kusch, S.; Berg, S.; Bale, N.J.; Sangiorgi, F.; Reichart, G.-J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2024). Evaluating isoprenoidal hydroxylated GDGT-based temperature proxies in surface sediments from the global ocean. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 370: 113-127. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.12.019, meer
Yadav, S.; Koenen, M.; Bale, N.; Reitsma, W.; Engelmann, J.C.; Stefanova, K.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2024). Organic matter degradation in the deep, sulfidic waters of the Black Sea: insights into the ecophysiology of novel anaerobic bacteria. Microbiome 12(1): 98. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-024-01816-x, meer
Zuffa, S.; Schmid, R.; Bauermeister, A.; P. Gomes, P.W.; Caraballo-Rodriguez, A.M.; El Abiead, Y.; Aron, A.T.; Gentry, E.C.; Zemlin, J.; Meehan, M.J.; Avalon, N.E.; Cichewicz, R.H.; Buzun, E.; Terrazas, M.C.; Hsu, C.-Y.; Oles, R.; Ayala, A.V.; Zhao, J.; Chu, H.; Kuijpers, M.C.M.; Jackrel, S.L.; Tugizimana, F.; Nephali, L.P.; Dubery, I.A.; Madala, N.E.; Moreira, E.A.; Costa-Lotufo, L.V.; Lopes, N.P.; Rezende-Teixeira, P.; Jimenez, P.C.; Rimal, B.; Patterson, A.D.; Traxler, M.F.; Pessotti, R. de Cassia; Alvarado-Villalobos, D.; Tamayo-Castillo, G.; Chaverri, P.; Escudero-Leyva, E.; Quiros-Guerrero, L.-M.; Bory, A.J.; Joubert, J.; Rutz, A.; Wolfender, J.-L.; Allard, P.-M.; Sichert, A.; Pontrelli, S.; Pullman, B.S.; Bandeira, N.; Gerwick, W.H.; Gindro, K.; Massana-Codina, J.; Wagner, B.C.; Forchhammer, K.; Petras, D.; Aiosa, N.; Garg, N.; Liebeke, M.; Bourceau, P.; Kang, K.B.; Gadhavi, H.; de Carvalho, L.P.S.; Silva dos Santos, M.; Pérez-Lorente, A.I.; Molina-Santiago, C.; Romero, D.; Franke, R.; Brönstrup, M.; Vera Ponce de León, A.; Pope, P.B.; La Rosa, S.L.; La Barbera, G.; Roager, H.M.; Laursen, M.F.; Hammerle, F.; Siewert, B.; Peintner, U.; Licona-Cassani, C.; Rodriguez-Orduña, L.; Rampler, E.; Hildebrand, F.; Koellensperger, G.; Schoeny, H.; Hohenwallner, K.; Panzenboeck, L.; Gregor, R.; O’Neill, E.C.; Roxborough, E.T.; Odoi, J.; Bale, N.J.; Ding, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Guan, X.L.; Cui, J.J.; Ju, K.-S.; Silva, D.B.; Silva, F.M.R.; da Silva, G.F.; Koolen, H.H.F.; Grundmann, C.; Clement, J.A.; Mohimani, H.; Broders, K.; McPhail, K.L.; Ober-Singleton, S.E.; Rath, C.M.; McDonald, D.; Knight, R.; Wang, M.; Dorrestein, P.C. (2024). microbeMASST: a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data. Nature Microbiology 9(2): 336-345. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01575-9, meer
Cutmore, A.; Bale, N.; de Lange, G.J.; Nijenhuis, I. A.; Lourens, L.J. (2023). A Window Into Eastern Mediterranean Productivity Conditions Over Three Pliocene Precession‐Forced Climate Cycles. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38(4). https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022pa004550, meer
Mitrovic, D.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.J.; Richter, N.; Amaral-Zettler, L.; Baxter, A.J.; Peterse, F; Miguel Raposeiro, P.; Gonçalves, V.; Cristina Costa, A.; Schouten, S. (2023). Isoprenoidal GDGTs and GDDs associated with anoxic lacustrine environments. Org. Geochem. 178: 104582. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2023.104582, meer
Pérez Gallego, R.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2023). Developing a genetic approach to target cyanobacterial producers of heterocyte glycolipids in the environment. Front. Microbiol. 14: 1257040. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1257040, meer
Pérez Gallego, R.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2023). Developing a genetic approach to target cyanobacterial producers of heterocyte glycolipids in the environment. Front. Microbiol. 14: 1257040. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1257040, meer
Pérez Gallego, R.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2023). Developing a genetic approach to target cyanobacterial producers of heterocyte glycolipids in the environment. Front. Microbiol. 14: 1257040. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1257040, meer
Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Huber, K.J.; Albuquerque, L.; Egas, C.; Bale, N. (2023). Dominance of mixed ether/ester, intact polar membrane lipids in five species of the order Rubrobacterales: Another group of bacteria not obeying the “lipid divide”. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 46(2): 126404. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2023.126404, meer
Sorokin, D.Y.; Elcheninov, A.G.; Merkel, A.Y.; Bale, N.; Sinninghe Damste, J.S.; Kublanov, I.V. (2023). Halapricum hydrolyticum sp. nov., a beta-1,3-glucan utilizing haloarchaeon from hypersaline lakes. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 46(6): 126471. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2023.126471, meer
van Kemenade, Z.R.; Cutmore, A.; Hennekam, R.; Hopmans, E.C.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Mojtahid, M.; Jorissen, F.; Bale, N.; Reichart, G.-J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Rush, D. (2023). Marine nitrogen cycling dynamics under altering redox conditions: Insights from deposition of sapropels S1 and the ambiguous S2 in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 354: 197-210. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.06.018, meer
Ding, S.; Henkel, J.V.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.J.; Koenen, M.; Villanueva, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2022). Changes in the membrane lipid composition of a Sulfurimonas species depend on the electron acceptor used for sulfur oxidation. ISME Commun. 2: 121. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00207-3, meer
Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Siliakus, M.F.; Abdala Asbun, A.; Koenen, M.; von Meijenfeldt, F. A.B.; Boeren, S.; Bale, N.J.; Engelmann, J.C.; Fiege, K.; Strack van Schijndel, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2022). Disentangling the lipid divide: Identification of key enzymes for the biosynthesis of membrane-spanning and ether lipids in bacteria. Science Advances 8(50). https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq8652, meer
Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Villanueva, L.; Bale, N.J.; Bosviel, J.; Koenen, M.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2022). Changes in the distribution of membrane lipids during growth of Thermotoga maritima at different temperatures: Indications for the potential mechanism of biosynthesis of ether-bound diabolic acid (membrane-spanning) lipids. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 88(2). https://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.01763-21, meer
Sánchez-Andrea, I.; van der Graaf, C.M.; Hornung, B.; Bale, N.J.; Jarzembowska, M.; Sousa, D.Z.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Stams, A.J.M. (2022). Acetate degradation at low pH by the moderately acidophilic sulfate reducer Acididesulfobacillus acetoxydans gen. nov. sp. nov. Front. Microbiol. 13: 816605. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.816605, meer
Sorokin, D.Y.; Elcheninov, A.G.; Khizhniak, T.V.; Koenen, M.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Kublanov, I.V. (2022). Natronocalculus amylovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Natranaeroarchaeum aerophilus sp. nov., dominant culturable amylolytic natronoarchaea from hypersaline soda lakes in southwestern Siberia. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 45(4): 126336. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2022.126336, meer
Sorokin, D.Y.; Yakimov, M.; Messina, E.; Merkel, A.Y.; Koenen, M.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2022). Natranaeroarchaeum sulfidigenes gen. nov., sp. nov., carbohydrate-utilizing sulfur-respiring haloarchaeon from hypersaline soda lakes, a member of a new family Natronoarchaeaceae fam. nov. in the order Halobacteriales. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 45(6): 126356. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2022.126356, meer
Bale, N.J.; Ding, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Arts, M.G.I.; Villanueva, L.; Boschman, C.; Haas, A.F.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2021). Lipidomics of environmental microbial communities. I: visualization of component distributions using untargeted analysis of high-resolution mass spectrometry data. Front. Microbiol. 12. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.659302, meer
Ding, S.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Villanueva, L.; Arts, M.G.I.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2021). Lipidomics of environmental microbial communities. II: characterization using molecular networking and information theory. Front. Microbiol. 12: 659315. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.659315, meer
Sorokin, D.Y.; Yakimov, M.M.; Messina, E.; Merkel, A.Y.; Koenen, M.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2021). Halapricum desulfuricans sp. nov., carbohydrate-utilizing, sulfur-respiring haloarchaea from hypersaline lakes. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 44(6): 126249. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2021.126249, meer
Sorokin, D.Y.; Diender, M.; Merkel, A.Y.; Koenen, M.; Bale, N.J.; Pabst, M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Sousa, D.Z. (2021). Natranaerofaba carboxydovora gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely haloalkaliphilic CO‐utilizing acetogen from a hypersaline soda lake representing a novel deep phylogenetic lineage in the class ‘Natranaerobiia’. Environ. Microbiol. 23(7): 3460-3476. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15241, meer
Spencer-Jones, C.L.; McClymont, E.L.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Müller, J.; Abrahamsen, E.Povl; Allen, C.; Bickert, T.; Hillenbrand, C.-D.; Mawbey, E.M.; Peck, V.; Svalova, A.; Smith, J.A. (2021). Archaeal intact polar lipids in polar waters: a comparison between the Amundsen and Scotia seas. Biogeosciences 18(11): 3485-3504. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3485-2021, meer
Yadav, S.; Koenen, M.; Bale, N.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2021). The physiology and metabolic properties of a novel, low‐abundance Psychrilyobacter species isolated from the anoxic Black Sea shed light on its ecological role. Environmental Microbiology Reports 13(6): 899-910. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.13012, meer
Bale, N.J.; Koenen, M.; Yadav, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Villanueva, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2020). Diagnostic amide products of amino lipids detected in the microaerophilic bacteria Lutibacter during routine fatty acid analysis using gas chromatography. Org. Geochem. 144: 104027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104027, meer
Besseling, M.A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.J.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2020). The absence of intact polar lipid-derived GDGTs in marine waters dominated by Marine Group II: Implications for lipid biosynthesis in Archaea. NPG Scientific Reports 10(1): 10 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57035-0, meer
de Bar, M.W.; Weiss, G.M.; Yildiz, C.; Rampen, S.W.; Lattaud, J.; Bale, N.J.; Mienis, F.; Brummer, G.-J. A.; Schulz, H.; Rush, D.; Kim, J.-H.; Donner, B.; Knies, J.; Lückge, A.; Stuut, J.-B.W.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2020). Global temperature calibration of the Long chain Diol Index in marine surface sediments. Org. Geochem. 142: 103983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.103983, meer
van der Graaf; Sánchez-España; Yusta; Ilin; Shetty; Bale, N.J.; Villanueva, L.; Stams, A.J.M.; Sánchez-Andrea, I. (2020). Biosulfidogenesis mediates natural attenuation in acidic mine pit lakes. Microorganisms 8(9): 1275. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8091275, meer
van der Graaf, C.M.; Sánchez-España, J.; Yusta, I.; Ilin, A.; Shetty, S.A.; Bale, N.J.; Villanueva, L.; Stams, A.J.M.; Sánchez-Andrea, I. (2020). Biosulfidogenesis mediates natural attenuation in acidic mine pit lakes. Microorganisms 8(9): 1275. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8091275, meer
van Vliet, D.M.; Lin; Bale, N.J.; Koenen, M.; Villanueva, L.; Stams, A.J.M.; Sánchez-Andrea, I. (2020). Pontiella desulfatans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Pontiella sulfatireligans sp. nov., two marine anaerobes of the Pontiellaceae fam. nov. producing sulfated glycosaminoglycan-like exopolymers. Microorganisms 8(6): 920. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8060920, meer
Yadav, S.; Villanueva, L.; Bale, N.; Koenen, M.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2020). Physiological, chemotaxonomic and genomic characterization of two novel piezotolerant bacteria of the family Marinifilaceae isolated from sulfidic waters of the Black Sea. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 43(5): 126122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126122, meer
Bale, N.J.; Palatinszky, M.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Herbold, C.W.; Wagner, M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2019). Membrane lipid composition of the moderately thermophilic ammonia-oxidizing archaeon “Candidatus Nitrosotenuis uzonensis” at different growth temperatures. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 85(20). https://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.01332-19, meer
Bale, N.J.; Sorokin, D.Y.; Hopmans, E.C.; Koenen, M.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Villanueva, L.; Wienk, H.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2019). New insights into the polar lipid composition of extremely halo(alkali)philic euryarchaea from hypersaline lakes. Front. Microbiol. 10: article 377. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00377, meer
Bale, N.J.; Hennekam, R.; Hopmans, E.C.; Dorhout, D.; Reichart, G.-J.; Van der Meer, M.T.J.; Villareal, T.A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2019). Biomarker evidence for nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterial blooms in a brackish surface layer in the Nile River plume during sapropel deposition. Geology (Boulder Colo.) 47(11): 1088-1092. https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g46682.1, meer
Bale, N.J.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Oshkin, I.Y.; Belova, S.E.; Dedysh, S.N.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2019). Fatty acid and hopanoid adaption to cold in the methanotroph Methylovulum psychrotolerans. Front. Microbiol. 10: article 589. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00589, meer
Sorokin, D.Y.; Khijniak, T.V.; Elcheninov, A.G.; Toshchakov, S.V.; Kostrikina, N.A.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Kublanov, I.V. (2019). Halococcoides cellulosivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic cellulose-utilizing haloarchaeon from hypersaline lakes. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 69(5): 1327-1335. https://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003312, meer
Sorokin, D.Y.; Elcheninov, A.G.; Toshchakov, S.V.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Khijniak, T.V.; Kublanov, I.V. (2019). Natrarchaeobius chitinivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Natrarchaeobius halalkaliphilus sp. nov., alkaliphilic, chitin-utilizing haloarchaea from hypersaline alkaline lakes. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 42(3): 309-318. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2019.01.001, meer
Sorokin, D.Y.; Yakimov, M.; Messina, E.; Merkel, A.Y.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2019). Natronolimnobius sulfurireducens sp. nov. and Halalkaliarchaeum desulfuricum gen. nov., sp. nov., the first sulfur-respiring alkaliphilic haloarchaea from hypersaline alkaline lakes. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 69(9): 2662-2673. https://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003506, meer
Bale, N.J.; Villareal, T.A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Brussaard, C.P.D.; Besseling, M.; Dorhout, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). C₅ glycolipids of heterocystous cyanobacteria track symbiont abundance in the diatom Hemiaulus hauckii across the tropical North Atlantic. Biogeosciences 15(4): 1229-1241. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1229-2018, meer
Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Dorhout, D.; Stal, L.J.; Grego, M.; van Bleijswijk, J.D.L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). A novel heterocyst glycolipid detected in a pelagic N₂ -fixing cyanobacterium of the genus Calothrix. Org. Geochem. 123: 44-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.06.009, meer
Balzano, S.; Lattaud, J.; Villanueva, L.; Rampen, S.W.; Brussaard, C.P.D.; van Bleijswijk, J.; Bale, N.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). A quest for the biological sources of long chain alkyl diols in the western tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Biogeosciences 15(19): 5951-5968. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5951-2018, meer
Sorokin, D.Y.; Khijniak, T.V.; Kostrikina, N.A.; Elcheninov, A.G.; Toshchakov, S.V.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Kublanov, I.V. (2018). Natronobiforma cellulositropha gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel haloalkaliphilic member of the family Natrialbaceae (class Halobacteria) from hypersaline alkaline lakes. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 41(4): 355-362. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2018.04.002, meer
Bale, N.; de Vries, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2017). A method for quantifying heterocyst glycolipids in biomass and sediments. Org. Geochem. 110: 33-35. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.04.010, meer
Sollai, M.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.J.; Mets, A.; Warden, L.; Moros, M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2017). The Holocene sedimentary record of cyanobacterial glycolipids in the Baltic Sea: an evaluation of their application as tracers of past nitrogen fixation. Biogeosciences 14(24): 5789-5804. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5789-2017, meer
Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schoon, P.; de Kluijver, A.; Downing, J.A.; Middelburg, J.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2016). Impact of trophic state on the distribution of intact polar lipids in surface waters of lakes. Limnol. Oceanogr. 61(3): 1065–1077. dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.10274, meer
Heinzelmann, S.M.; Bale, N.J.; Villanueva, L.; Sinke-Schoen, D.; Philippart, C.J.M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Van der Meer, M.T.J. (2016). Seasonal changes in the D  /  H ratio of fatty acids of pelagic microorganisms in the coastal North Sea. Biogeosciences 13: 5527-5539. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5527-2016, meer
Maat, D.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Brussaard, C.P.D. (2016). Increasing P limitation and viral infection impact lipid remodeling of the picophytoplankter Micromonas pusilla. Biogeosciences 13(5): 1667-1676. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1667-2016, meer
Bale, N.; Hopmans, E.C.; Zell, C.; Sobrinho, R.; Kim, J.H.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villareal, T.A.; Schouten, S. (2015). Long chain glycolipids with pentose head groups as biomarkers for marine endosymbiotic heterocystous cyanobacteria. Org. Geochem. 81: 1-7. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.01.004, meer
Bale, N.J.; Maat, D.S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Mets, A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Brussaard, C.P.D.; Schouten, S. (2015). Fatty acid dynamics during viral infection of Phaeocystis globosa. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 74: 85–94. dx.doi.org/10.3354/ame01730, meer
Bale, N.; Villanueva, L.; Fan, H.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Stal, L.J. (2014). Occurrence and activity of anammox bacteria in surface sediments of the southern North Sea. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 89(1): 99–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12338, meer
Heinzelmann, S.M.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2014). Critical Assessment of Glyco- and Phospholipid Separation by Using Silica Chromatography. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 80(1): 360-365. dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02817-13, meer
Lipsewers, Y.A.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2014). Seasonality and depth distribution of the abundance and activity of ammonia oxidizing microorganisms in marine coastal sediments (North Sea). Front. Microbiol. 5: 471 1-12. dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00472, meer
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Villanueva, L.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Diversity and distribution of a key sulpholipid biosynthetic gene in marine microbial assemblages. Environ. Microbiol. 16(3): 774-787. dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12202, meer
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