Alkenones are long-chain unsaturated methyl and ethyl n-ketones produced by a few phytoplankton species of the class Prymnesiophyceae. Alkenones typically...

citric acid cycle, which is of great importance in bioenergy. An enone (or alkenone) is an organic compound containing both alkene and ketone functional groups...

temperature calibration of the alkenone unsaturation index (U K′ 37 ) in surface waters and comparison with surface sediments: ALKENONE UNSATURATION INDEX". Geochemistry...

compounds, known as alkenones, can be found in marine sediments long after other soft parts of the organisms have decomposed. Alkenones are most commonly...

last 16,000 years from records of planktonic stable oxygen isotopes and alkenone unsaturation ratios". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology...

terminations) of older glacial periods. Temperature-sensitive lipids, long chain alkenones, found in lake and marine sediments, are well-regarded as a powerful paleothermometer...

into the icehouse climate. Multiple proxies, such as oxygen isotopes and alkenones, indicate that at the Eocene–Oligocene transition, the atmospheric carbon...

the middle of the Mesozoic Era. An analysis of CO2 reconstructions from alkenone records shows that CO2 in the atmosphere declined before and during Antarctic...

characteristic of certain climatic zones. Biomarker molecules such as the alkenones may yield information about their temperature of formation. Chemical signatures...

bankruptcy in 2015. By 2015, cultivation of fatty acid methyl esters and alkenones from the algae, Isochrysis, was under research. By 2016, Thomas Brueck...