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  "abstract": "Archaea are single‐celled microorganisms that are abundant in marine environments and play a key role in the carbon and nitrogen cycles. Archaea can biosynthesize a wide variety of isoprenoid membrane lipids, including isoprenoid glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers (isoGDGTs). Experimental and empirical evidence demonstrates that the number of cyclopentane moieties in isoGDGTs is related to growth temperature, leading to the formulation and development of the TEX 86 ocean temperature proxy. The TEX 86 proxy has been widely applied to marine sediments spanning the last 190 million years and has revealed unique insights into the evolution of ocean temperatures over diverse timescales. Other indices have been developed using archaeal lipids to reconstruct ecological and biogeochemical processes that operate within the marine realm. However, several knowledge gaps (e.g., depth of export production, non‐temperature controls, application in non‐analogue climates) limit the application of archaeal lipid‐based proxies in modern and ancient marine environments. In this review, we critically assess the utility of archaeal lipids as tracers for (paleo) environmental change, with an emphasis on the TEX 86 paleotemperature proxy.",
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    "Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University Heidelberg Germany",
    "Leibniz‐Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Isotope Research Kiel University Kiel Germany",
    "CAU - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel = Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel = Université Christian-Albrechts de Kiel (Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4, 24118 Kiel, Germany - Germany)",
    "School of Ocean and Earth Science University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus European Way UK",
    "University of Southampton (University Road, Southampton SO17 1BJ - United Kingdom)",
    "CEREGE, Aix‐Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, Coll France Aix‐en‐Provence France",
    "CEREGE - Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (Europôle Méditerranéen de l'Arbois - Avenue Louis Philibert - BP 80 - 13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex 4 - France)",
    "Lamont‐Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Palisades NY USA",
    "LDEO - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (University of Columbia, Palisades, New York 10964 - United States)",
    "Organic Geochemistry Unit School of Chemistry University of Bristol Bristol UK",
    "School of Chemistry [Bristol] (Cantock's Close Bristol BS8 1TS - United Kingdom)",
    "Department of Earth Sciences Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands",
    "Department of Earth Sciences [Utrecht] (NL-3508 TA Utrecht - Netherlands)",
    "School of Earth Sciences Cabot Institute for the Environment University of Bristol Bristol UK",
    "Organic Geochemistry Unit - OGU (Bristol, United Kingdom) (United Kingdom)",
    "Department of Geosciences The University of Arizona Tucson AZ USA",
    "University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Boulder CO USA",
    "Department of Geosciences [University of Arizona] (United States)",
    "UCAR - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 - United States)",
    "Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences ETH Zurich Zurich Switzerland",
    "Geological Institute [ETH Zürich] (Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092 Zürich - Switzerland)",
    "MARUM ‐ Center for Marine Environmental Sciences University of Bremen Bremen Germany",
    "MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences [Bremen] (Leo­bener Str. 8, D-28359 Bre­men - Germany)",
    "Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Den Burg The Netherlands",
    "NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, Pays-Bas - Netherlands)",
    "Department of Chemistry/Biology University of Bremen Bremen Germany",
    "GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel Kiel Germany",
    "GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research [Kiel] (Wischhofstr. 1-3, 24148 Kiel - Germany)",
    "Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN USA",
    "CEEES - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Science [Notre Dame] (156 Fitzpatrick Hall , Notre Dame, IN 46556 - United States)",
    "State Key Laboratory of Submarine Geoscience; Key Laboratory of Polar Ecosystem and Climate Change, Ministry of Education; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Polar Life and Environment Sciences; and School of Oceanography Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai China",
    "Shanghai Jiao Tong University [Shanghai] (800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240 - China)",
    "Antarctic Research Centre Victoria University of Wellington Wellington New Zealand",
    "Earth Sciences New Zealand Lower Hutt New Zealand",
    "GNS Science [Lower Hutt] (1 Fairway Dr, Avalon, Lower Hutt 5011 - New Zealand)",
    "NIWA - National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research [Auckland] (41 Market Place, Viaduct Harbour, Auckland Central 1010 - New Zealand)",
    "Victoria University of Wellington (PO Box 600 Wellington 6140 NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand)",
    "School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Birmingham Birmingham UK",
    "School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences [Birmingham] (Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom - United Kingdom)",
    "Institute of Oceanography National Taiwan University Taipei City Taiwan"
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  "title": "Archaeal Tetraether Lipids as Tracers for Past Marine Environmental Change",
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