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Diversity of cyanobacterial biomarker genes from the stromatolites of Shark Bay, Western Australia.
Environmental microbiology - 1 May 2013
Garby Tamsyn J, Walter Malcolm R, Larkum Anthony W D, Neilan Brett A
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Families of closely related chemical compounds, which are relatively resistant to degradation, are often used as biomarkers to help trace the evolutionary history of early groups of organisms and the environments in which they lived. Biomarkers derived from hopanoid variations are particularly useful in determining bacterial community compositions. 2-Methylhopananoids have been thought to be diagnostic for...
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