Friday, October 30, 2009

Alcedo atthis, also known as Eurasian, European, or river kingfisher

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Alcedo atthis is the systematic name of a bird otherwise known as common kingfisher or river kingfisher . The names Eurasian kingfisher o...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Acronym in chemistry: GDGT for glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether

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Glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers ( GDGTs ) are large cyclic tetraether molecules biosynthesized by archaebacteria as membrane bui...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Crenarchaeol, derived from Crenarchaea

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Crenarchaeol derives from Crenarchaea , linguistically and biochemically. Crenarchaea, a taxonomic grouping of archaea, are autotrophic org...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Acronym in microbiology: ANME for anaerobic methanotrophic archaea

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The Linnaean classification system knows only two domains, plants and animals, at the highest level of its hierarchy. With the “birth” of t...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Acronym in analytical chemistry: GC-irm-MS for gas chromatography—isotope ratio monitoring—mass spectrometry

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The term gas chromatography—isotope ratio monitoring—mass spectrometry ( GC-irm-MS ) was coined in the 1980s in Indiana by John Hayes, Kate...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

Emily, a nickname for Emiliania huxleyi

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Emily is a short term and nickname that some microbiologists like to use to refer to the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi , a species from...

The term biomarker and its synonyms

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The word biomarker was coined in the late 1970s by Wolfgang Seifert at Chevron, when chemical fingerprinting of sediments, crude oil and ot...