Darwin Center programs and projects1080: Impact of benthic processes on biogeochemical organic carbon cycling and organic proxy records in marine sediments1082: Impact of post-depositional processes on organic proxies2063: Impact of CO2 concentrations and pH on marine microbial membrane lipids
Darwin Center publicationsSinninghe Damsté, J.S., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Hopmans, E.C., Schouten, S., Balk, M., Stams, A.J.M.
(2007). Structural characterization of diabolic acid-based tetraester, tetraether and mixed ether/ester, membrane-spanning lipids of bacteria from the order Thermotogales
. Archives of Microbiology pp 629-641188 (6): 629-641.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M., Hopmans E. C., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stams A. J. M.Bauersachs T., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Kremer, B.
(2009). A biomarker and δ15N study of thermally altered Silurian cyanobacterial mats. Organic Geochemistry40 (2): 149-157.
Darwin Center authors: Bauersachs T., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Bauersachs, T., Compaore, J., Hopmans, E.C., Stal, L.J., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2009). Distribution of heterocyst glycolipids in cyanobacteria. Phytochemistry70 (17-18): 2034-2039.
Darwin Center authors: Bauersachs T., Compaore J., Hopmans E. C., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stal L. J.Bauersachs, T, Schouten, S., Compaore, J., Wollenzien, U., Stal, L.J., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2009). Nitrogen isotopic fractionation associated with growth on dinitrogen gas and nitrate by cyanobacteria. Limnology and Oceanography54 (4): 1403-1411.
Darwin Center authors: Bauersachs T., Compaore J., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stal L. J.Jaeschke, A., Op den Camp, H.J.M., Harhangi, H., Klimiuk, A., Hopmans, E.C., Jetten, M.S.M., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2009). 16S rRNA gene and lipid biomarker evidence for anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (anammox) in California and Nevada hot springs. FEMS Microbiology Ecology67 (3): 343-350.
Darwin Center authors: op den Camp H. J. M., Hopmans E. C., Jetten M. S. M., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Jagersma, G.C., Meulepas, R.J.W., Heikamp-de Jong, I., Gieteling, J., Klimiuk, A., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Lens, P.N.L., Stams, A.J.M. (2009). Microbial diversity and community structure of a highly active anaerobic methane-oxidizing sulfate-reducing enrichment. Environmental Microbiology11 (12): 3223-3232.
Darwin Center authors: Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stams A. J. M.Schouten, S., Klimiuk, A.M., van der Meer, M.T.J., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2009). Occurrence and Carbon Metabolism of Green Nonsulfur-like Bacteria in Californian and Nevada Hot Spring Microbial mats as Revealed by Wax Ester Lipid Analysis. Geomicrobiology Journal26 (3): 179-188.
Darwin Center authors: Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Weijers, J.W.H., Panota, E., Schouten, S., Balk, M., Stams, A.J.M., Rijpstra, I.C., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.
(2009). Constraints on the biological source(s) of the orphan branched tetraether membrane lipids
. Geomicrobiology journal26 (6): 402-414.
Darwin Center authors: Balk M., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stams A. J. M.Schouten S., Klimiuk A.M., van der Meer M.T.J., Sinninghe Damsté J.S.
(2009). Occurrence and carbon metabolisms of green nonsulfur bacteria in Californian and Nevada hot spring microbial mats
. Geomicrobiology journal26: 179-188.
Darwin Center authors: Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Peterse, F., Kim, J.-H., Schouten, S., Kristensen, D.K., Koç, N., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.
(2009). Constraints on the application of the MBT/CBT palaeothermometer at high latitude environments (Svalbard, Norway)
. Organic Geochemistry40 (6): 692-699.
Darwin Center authors: Peterse F., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Peterse, F., Schouten, S., van der Meer, J., van der Meer, M.T.J., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.
(2009). Distribution of branched tetraether lipids in geothermally heated soils: implications for the MBT/CBT temperature proxy
. Organic Geochemistry40 (2): 201-205.
Darwin Center authors: Peterse F., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Peterse, F., van der Meer, M.T.J., Schouten, S., Jia, G., Ossebaar, J., Blokker, J., and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.
(2009). Assessment of soil n-alkane δD and branched tetraether membrane lipid distributions as tools for paleoelevation reconstruction
. Biogeosciences6: 2799-2807.
Darwin Center authors: Peterse F., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Pitcher, A., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.
(2009). In situ production of crenarchaeol in two California hot springs
. Applied and Environmental Microbiology75 (13): 4443-4451.
Darwin Center authors: Pitcher A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Pitcher, A., Hopmans, E.C., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.
(2009). Separation of core and intact polar archaeal tetraether lipids using silica columns: Insights into living and fossil biomass contributions
. Organic Geochemistry40 (1): 12-19.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Pitcher A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Bauersachs, T., Hopmans, E.C., Compaoré, J., Stal, L.J., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.
(2009). Rapid analysis of long-chain glycolipids in heterocystous cyanobacteria using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry
. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry23 (9): 1387-1394.
Darwin Center authors: Bauersachs T., Compaore J., Hopmans E. C., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stal L. J.Appy Sluijs, Stefan Schouten, Timme H. Donders, Petra L. Schoon, Ursula Röhl, Gert-Jan Reichart, Francesca Sangiorgi, Jung-Hyun Kim, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté and Henk Brinkhuis (2009). Warm and wet conditions in the Arctic region
during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2. Nature geoscience2: 777-780.
Darwin Center authors: Brinkhuis H., Reichart G. J., Schoon P. L., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Sluijs A.Kim, J.H., Zarzycka, B., Buscail, R., Peterse, F., Bonnin, J., Ludwig, W., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2010). Contribution of river-borne soil organic carbon to the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean). Limnology and Oceanography55: 507-518.
Darwin Center authors: Peterse F., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Peterse, F., Nicol, G., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2010). Influence of soil pH on the abundance and distribution of core and intact polar lipid-derived branched GDGTs in soil. Organic Geochemistry41: 1171-1175.
Darwin Center authors: Peterse F., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Stap, H.L., Lourens, L.J., Van Dijk, A., Schouten, S., Thomas, E. (2010). Coherent pattern and timing of the carbon isotope excursion and warming during Eocene Thermal
Maximum 2 as recorded in planktic and benthic foraminifera. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.11, Q11011:
Darwin Center authors: Lourens L. J., Schouten S., Stap L.Bauersachs, T., Speelman, E.N., Hopmans, E.C., Reichart, G.J., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2010). Fossilized glycolipids reveal past oceanic N2 fixation by heterocystous cyanobacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS)107: 19190-19194.
Darwin Center authors: Bauersachs T., Hopmans E. C., Reichart G. J., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Speelman E. N.Cornelia I. Blaga, Gert-Jan Reichart, Stefan Schouten, André F. Lotter, Josef P. Werne, Sarian Kosten, Nestor Mazzeo, Gissell Lacerot, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté (2010). Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in lake sediments: Can they be used as temperature and pH proxies?. Organic Geochemistry41: 1225-1234.
Darwin Center authors: Blaga C. I., Lotter A. F., Reichart G. J., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Thorsten Bauersachs, Stefan Schouten, Justine Compaoré, Lucas J. Stal, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté (2010). Occurrence of C35–C45 polyprenols in filamentous and unicellular cyanobacteria. Organic Geochemistry41: 867-870.
Darwin Center authors: Bauersachs T., Compaore J., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stal L. J.Pitcher A., Rychlik N., Hopmans E.C., Spieck E., Rijpstra I.C., Ossebaar J., Wagner M., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. (2010). Crenarchaeol dominates the membrane lipids of "Candidatus Nitrososphaera gargensis", a thermophilic Group I.1b Archaeon. ISME Journal542-552.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Pitcher A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Rush D., Jaeschke A., Hopmans E.C., Geenevasen J.A.J., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S (2011). Short chained ladderanes in sediments: oxic biodegradation products of anammox lipids. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta75: 1662-1671.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Rush D., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Johan Weijers, Beth Bernhardt, Francien Peterse, Josef Werne, Jennifer Dungait, Stefan Schouten, Jaap Sinninghe Damsté (2011). Absence of seasonal patterns in MBT-CBT indices in mid-latitude soils. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta75: 3179-3190.
Darwin Center authors: Peterse F., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Francien Peterse, Ellen Hopmans, Stefan Schouten, Anchélique Mets, Irene Rijpstra, Jaap Sinninghe Damsté (2011). Identification and distribution of intact polar branched tetraether lipids in peat and soil. Organic Geochemistry42: 1007-1015.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Peterse F., Schouten S.Pitcher, A., Hopmans, E.C., Mosier, A.C., Park, S.J., Rhee, S-.K., Francis, C.A., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2011). Core and intact polar glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids of ammonia-oxidizing Archaea enriched from marine and estuarine sediments.. Appl. Env. Microbiol.77: 3468-3477.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Pitcher A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Petra L. Schoon, Appy Sluijs, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté and Stefan Schouten (2011). Stable carbon isotope patterns of marine biomarker lipids
in the Arctic Ocean during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2. PALEOCEANOGRAPHYVOL. 26:
Darwin Center authors: Schoon P. L., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Sluijs A.T. BAUERSACHS, J. COMPAORE, I. SEVERIN, E. C. HOPMANS, S. SCHOUTEN, L. J. STAL AND J. S. SINNINGHE DAMSTE (2011). Diazotrophic microbial community of coastal microbial mats
of the southern North Sea. Geobiology9: 349-359.
Darwin Center authors: Bauersachs T., Compaore J., Hopmans E. C., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Stal L. J.Bao-lan Hu
Darci Rush
Erwin van der Biezen
Ping Zheng
Mark van Mullekom
Stefan Schouten
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Alfons J. P. Smolders
Mike S. M. Jetten
Boran Kartal (2011). New Anaerobic, Ammonium-Oxidizing Community Enriched from Peat Soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology77: 966-971.
Darwin Center authors: Jetten M. S. M., Rush D., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Pitcher, A., Villanueva, L., Hopmans, E.C. , Schouten, S., Reichart, G.-J., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.
(2011). Niche segregation of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and anammox bacteria in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone
. ISME JournalVolume 5, Issue 12: 1896-1904.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Pitcher A., Reichart G. J., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Villanueva L.Pitcher A., Hopmans E.C., Mosier A.C., Park S.J., Rhee S-.K., Francis C.A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. (2011). Core and intact polar glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids of ammonia-oxidizing Archaea enriched from marine and estuarine sediments.. Applied and Environmental Microbiology77: 3468-3477.
Darwin Center authors: van Boxel J. H., Hopmans E. C., Pitcher A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Francien Peterse, Maarten A. Prins, Christiaan J. Beets, Simon R. Troelstra, Hongbo Zheng, Zhaoyan Gu, Stefan Schouten, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté (2011). Decoupled warming and monsoon precipitation in East Asia over the last deglaciation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters301: 256-264.
Darwin Center authors: Peterse F., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Troelstra S. R.Brandsma J., Hopmans E.C., Brussaard C.P.D., Witte H.J., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. (2012). Spatial distribution of intact polar lipids in North Sea surface waters: Relationship with environmental conditions and microbial community composition. Limn. Oceanograph57: 959-973.
Darwin Center authors: Brussaard C. P. D., Hopmans E. C., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Brandsma J., Hopmans E.C., Philippart C.J.M., Veldhuis M.J.W., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. (2012). Low temporal variation in the intact polar lipid composition of North Sea coastal marine water reveals limited chemotaxonomic value. Biogeosciences9: 1073-1084.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Schouten S., Pitcher A., Hopmans E.C., Villanueva L., van Bleijswijk J., and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. (2012). Intact polar and core glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone: I. Selective preservation and degradation in the water column and its consequences for the TEX86.. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta98: 228-243.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Pitcher A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Villanueva L.Sauder, L.A., Peterse, F., Schouten, S., Neufeld, J.D. (2012). Low-ammonia niche of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in rotating biological contactors of a municipal wastewater treatment plant.. Microbiology14: 2589-2600.
Darwin Center authors: Peterse F., Schouten S.Tierney, J.E., Schouten, S., Pitcher, A., Hopmans, E.C., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). Core and intact polar glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in Sand Pond, Warwick, Rhode Island (USA): Insights into the origin of lacustrine GDGTs. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta77: 561-581.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Pitcher A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Lengger, S.K., Hopmans, E.C., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Schouten, S. (2012). Comparison of extraction and work up techniques for analysis of core and intact polar tetraether lipids from sedimentary environments. Organic Geochemistry47: 34-40.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Lengger S., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Francien Peterse, Jaap van der Meer, Stefan Schouten, Johan W.H. Weijers, Noah Fierer, Robert B. Jackson, Jung-Hyun Kim, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté (2012). Revised calibration of the MBT–CBT paleotemperature proxy based on branched tetraether membrane lipids in surface soils. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta96: 215-229.
Darwin Center authors: Peterse F., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Rush D., Hopmans E.C., Wakeham S.G., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. (2012). Occurrence and distribution of ladderane oxidation products in different oceanic regimes.. Biogeosciences9: 2407-2418.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Rush D., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Peterse F., van der Meer J., Schouten S., Weijers J.W.H., Fierer N., Jackson R.B., Kim J.-K., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. (2012). Revised calibration of the MBT-CBT paleotemperature proxy based on branched tetraether membrane lipids in surface soils.. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta96: 215-229.
Darwin Center authors: Barke J., Peterse F., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Rush D., Wakeham S.G., Hopmans E.C., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. (2012). Biomarker evidence for anammox in the oxygen minimum zone of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific. Organic Geochemistry53: 80-87.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Rush D., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Lengger, S.K., Hopmans, E.C., Reichart, G.-J., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Schouten, S. (2012). Intact polar and core glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids in the Arabian Sea Water Oxygen Minimum Zone: II. Selective preservation and degradation in sediments and consequences for the TEX86.. Geochimica.et Cosmochimica Acta98: 244-258.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Lengger S., Reichart G. J., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Veuger, B., Pitcher, A., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Middelburg, J.J. (2013). Nitrification and growth of autotrophic nitrifying bacteria and Thaumarchaeota in the coastal North Sea..
Darwin Center authors: Middelburg J.J., Pitcher A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Veuger B.Petra L. Schoon, Anna de Kluijver, Jack J. Middelburg, John A. Downing, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Stefan Schouten (2013). Influence of lake water pH and alkalinity on the distribution of core and intact polar branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in lakes. Organic Geochemistry60: 72-82.
Darwin Center authors: de Kluijver A., Middelburg J.J., Schoon P. L., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Petra L. Schoon, Claus Heilmann-Clausen, Bo Pagh Schultz, Appy Sluijs, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Stefan Schouten (2013). Recognition of Early Eocene global carbon isotope excursions using lipids of marine Thaumarchaeota. Earth and Planetary Science Letters373: 160-168.
Darwin Center authors: Schoon P. L., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Sluijs A.Lengger, S.K.
Hopmans, E.C.
Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.
Schouten, S (2014). Fossilization and degradation of archaeal intact polar tetraether lipids in deeply buried marine sediments ( Peru Margin). Geobiology12: 212-220.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Lengger S., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Lengger, S.K.
Hopmans, E.C.
Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.
LneSchouten, S (2014). Impact of sedimentary degradation and deep water column production on GDGT abundance and distribution in surface sediments in the Arabian Sea: Implications for the TEX86 paleothermometer. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta142: 386-399.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Lengger S., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Y.A.. Lipsewers
N.J. Bale
E.C. Hopmans
S. Schouten
J.S. Sinninghe Damsté
L. Villanueva (2014). Seasonality and depth distribution of the abundance and activity of ammonia oxidizing microorganisms in marine coastal sediments (North Sea). Frontiers in microbiology5 (471): 1-12.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Lipsewers A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Villanueva L.Lengger, S.K., Lipsewers, Y.A., de Haas, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Schouten, S. (2014). Lack of 13C-label incorporation suggests low turnover rates of thaumarchaeal intact polar tetraether lipids in sediments from the Iceland shelf. Biogeosciences11(2): 201-216.
Darwin Center authors: Lengger S., Lipsewers A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Rush, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Poulton, S.W.; Thamdrup, B.; Leigh Garside, A.; Acuña-Gonzalez, J.; Schouten, S.; Jetten, M.S.M.; Talbot, H.M. (2014). Anaerobic ammonium-oxidising bacteria: A biological source of the bacteriohopanetetrol stereoisomer in marine sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta140: 50-63.
Darwin Center authors: Jetten M. S. M., Rush D., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Rush, D., Jaeschke, A., Geenevasen, J.A.J., Tegelaar, E., Pureveen, J., Lewan, M.D., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Generation of unusual branched long chain alkanes from hydrous pyrolysis of anammox bacterial biomass.. Org. Geochem.76: 136-145.
Darwin Center authors: Rush D., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.de Kluijver, A., Schoon, P.L., Downing, J.A., Schouten, S., Middelburg, J.J. (2014). Stable carbon isotope biogeochemistry of lakes along a trophic gradient. Biogeosciences11: 6265-6276.
Darwin Center authors: de Kluijver A., Middelburg J.J., Schoon P. L., Schouten S.Schoon P. L., Heilmann-Clausen C., Schultz B. P., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Schouten S. (2015). Warming and environmental changes in the eastern North Sea Basin during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum as revealed by biomarker lipids.. Org. Geochem.78: 79-88.
Darwin Center authors: Schoon P. L., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.Sollai M.
Hopmans E.C.
Schouten S.
Keil R.G.
Sinninghe Damsté J.S. (2015). Intact polar lipids of Thaumarchaeota and anammox bacteria as indicators of N cycling in the eastern tropical North Pacific oxygen-deficient zone. Biogeosciences12: 4725-4737.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Sollai M.Sollai, M.
Hopmans, E.C.
Schouten, S.
Keil, R.G.
Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2015). Intact polar lipids of Thaumarchaeota and anammox bacteria as indicators of N cycling in the eastern tropical North Pacific oxygen-deficient zone. Biogeosciences12: 4725-4737.
Darwin Center authors: Hopmans E. C., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Sollai M.Schoon, P.L.; Heilmann-Clausen, C.; Schultz, B.P.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2015). Warming and environmental changes in the eastern North Sea Basin during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum as revealed by biomarker lipids.. Org. Geochem.78: 79-88.
Darwin Center authors: Schoon P. L., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.