[ report an error in this record ] Villanueva Alvarez, Laura ORCID Personal home page ResearcherID Institute  Top | Institute  Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee; Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry (MMB), more Direct contact at institute: E-mail:   Publications (94)  Top | Institute  A1 Publications (88) [show] Boukhchtaber, D.C.; von Meijenfeldt, F. A.B.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.; Dorhout, D.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Villanueva, L. (2025). Discovering hidden archaeal and bacterial lipid producers in a euxinic marine system. Environ. Microbiol. 27(3): e70054. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70054, more Pérez Gallego, R.; von Meijenfeldt, F. A.B.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2025). Emergence and evolution of heterocyte glycolipid biosynthesis enabled specialized nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122(5): e2413972122. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413972122, more Richter, N.; Villanueva, L.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Rush, D. (2025). Methanotroph-methylotroph lipid adaptations to changing environmental conditions. Front. Microbiol. 16: 1532719. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1532719, more Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L.; Pukall, R. (2025). A chemotaxonomic and phylogenomic re-evaluation of the genus Alicyclobacillus: A proposal for reclassification of about half of the species into the new genus, Paenalicyclobacillus gen. nov., with an emended description of the genus Alicyclobacillus, and recognition that the names Alicyclobacillus tengchongensis and Alicyclobacillus montanus are later heterotypic synonyms of Alicyclobacillus tolerans. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 48(6): 126651. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2025.126651, more Ding, S.; von Meijenfeldt, F. A.B.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2024). Production of structurally diverse sphingolipids by anaerobic marine bacteria in the euxinic Black Sea water column. ISME J. 18(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae153, more Egas, R.A.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.; Bale, N.J.; Koenen, M.; Yildiz, C.; Villanueva, L.; Sousa, D.Z.; Sánchez-Andrea, I. (2024). Acetic acid stress response of the acidophilic sulfate reducer Acididesulfobacillus acetoxydans. Environ. Microbiol. 26(2): e16565. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16565, more Keating, C.; Fiege, K.; Diender, M.; Sousa, D.Z.; Villanueva, L. (2024). Microbial single-cell applications under anoxic conditions. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 90(11): 80.61.95.25. https://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.01321-24, more Tamby, A.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.; Villanueva, L. (2024). Exploring robustness of hybrid membranes under high hydrostatic pressure and temperature. Front. Microbiol. 15: 1470844. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1470844, more Varma, D.; Villanueva, L.; Bale, N.; Offre, P.; Reichart, G.-J.; Schouten, S. (2024). Controls on the composition of hydroxylated isoprenoidal glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (isoGDGTs) in cultivated ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota. Biogeosciences 21(21): 4875-4888. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-4875-2024, more Yadav, S.; Koenen, M.; Bale, N.; Reitsma, W.; Engelmann, J.C.; Stefanova, K.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2024). Organic matter degradation in the deep, sulfidic waters of the Black Sea: insights into the ecophysiology of novel anaerobic bacteria. Microbiome 12(1): 98. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-024-01816-x, more Hoshino, Y.; Villanueva, L. (2023). Four billion years of microbial terpenome evolution. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 47(2): 1-39. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuad008, more Pérez Gallego, R.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2023). Developing a genetic approach to target cyanobacterial producers of heterocyte glycolipids in the environment. Front. Microbiol. 14: 1257040. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1257040, more Pérez Gallego, R.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2023). Developing a genetic approach to target cyanobacterial producers of heterocyte glycolipids in the environment. Front. Microbiol. 14: 1257040. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1257040, more Pérez Gallego, R.; Bale, N.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2023). Developing a genetic approach to target cyanobacterial producers of heterocyte glycolipids in the environment. Front. Microbiol. 14: 1257040. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1257040, more Richter, N.; Hopmans, E.C.; Mitrovic, D.; Miguel Raposeiro, P.; Gonçalves, V.; Costa, A.C.; Amaral-Zettler, L.; Villanueva, L.; Rush, D. (2023). Distributions of bacteriohopanepolyols in lakes and coastal lagoons of the Azores Archipelago. Biogeosciences 20(11): 2065-2098. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-2065-2023, more Tamby, A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2023). Microbial membrane lipid adaptations to high hydrostatic pressure in the marine environment. Front. Mol. Biosci. 9: 1058381. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2022.1058381, more Ding, S.; Henkel, J.V.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.J.; Koenen, M.; Villanueva, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2022). Changes in the membrane lipid composition of a Sulfurimonas species depend on the electron acceptor used for sulfur oxidation. ISME Commun. 2: 121. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00207-3, more Krause, S.; Gfrerer, S.; von Kügelgen, A.; Reuse, C.; Dombrowski, N.; Villanueva, L.; Bunk, B.; Spröer, C.; Neu, T.R.; Kuhlicke, U.; Schmidt-Hohagen, K.; Hiller, K.; Bharat, T.A.M.; Rachel, R.; Spang, A.; Gescher, J. (2022). The importance of biofilm formation for cultivation of a Micrarchaeon and its interactions with its Thermoplasmatales host. Nature Comm. 13: 1735. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29263-y, more Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Villanueva, L.; Bale, N.J.; Bosviel, J.; Koenen, M.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2022). Changes in the distribution of membrane lipids during growth of Thermotoga maritima at different temperatures: Indications for the potential mechanism of biosynthesis of ether-bound diabolic acid (membrane-spanning) lipids. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 88(2). https://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.01763-21, more Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Siliakus, M.F.; Abdala Asbun, A.; Koenen, M.; von Meijenfeldt, F. A.B.; Boeren, S.; Bale, N.J.; Engelmann, J.C.; Fiege, K.; Strack van Schijndel, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2022). Disentangling the lipid divide: Identification of key enzymes for the biosynthesis of membrane-spanning and ether lipids in bacteria. Science Advances 8(50). https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq8652, more Suominen, S.; Gomez-Saez, G.V.; Dittmar, T.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2022). Interplay between microbial community composition and chemodiversity of dissolved organic matter throughout the Black Sea water column redox gradient. Limnol. Oceanogr. 67(2): 329-347. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.11995, more van Kemenade, Z.R.; Villanueva, L.; Hopmans, E.C.; Kraal, P.; Witte, H.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Rush, D. (2022). Bacteriohopanetetrol-x: constraining its application as a lipid biomarker for marine anammox using the water column oxygen gradient of the Benguela upwelling system. Biogeosciences 19(1): 201-221. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-201-2022, more Villanueva, L.; Coolen, M.J.L. (2022). Contributions of genomics to lipid biomarker research: From paleoclimatology to evolution. Elements 18(2): 87-92. https://dx.doi.org/10.2138/gselements.18.2.87, more Bale, N.J.; Ding, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Arts, M.G.I.; Villanueva, L.; Boschman, C.; Haas, A.F.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2021). Lipidomics of environmental microbial communities. I: visualization of component distributions using untargeted analysis of high-resolution mass spectrometry data. Front. Microbiol. 12. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.659302, more Baxter, A.J.; van Bree, L.G.J.; Peterse, F.; Hopmans, E.C.; Villanueva, L.; Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damste, J.S. (2021). Seasonal and multi-annual variation in the abundance of isoprenoid GDGT membrane lipids and their producers in the water column of a meromictic equatorial crater lake (Lake Chala, East Africa). Quat. Sci. Rev. 273: 107263. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107263, more Ding, S.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Villanueva, L.; Arts, M.G.I.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2021). Lipidomics of environmental microbial communities. II: characterization using molecular networking and information theory. Front. Microbiol. 12: 659315. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.659315, more Fischer, P.Q.; Sánchez-Andrea, I.; Stams, A.J.M.; Villanueva, L.; Sousa, D.Z. (2021). Anaerobic microbial methanol conversion in marine sediments. Environ. Microbiol. 23(3): 1348-1362. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15434, more Lara, P.; Vega-Alvarado, L.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Koenen, M.; Villanueva, L.; Riveros-Mckay, F.; Morett, E.; Juárez, K. (2021). Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Cr(VI) Adaptation Mechanisms in Klebsiella sp. Strain AqSCr. Front. Microbiol. 12. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.656589, more Lattaud, J.; Balzano, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Villanueva, L.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2021). Sources and seasonality of long-chain diols in a temperate lake (Lake Geneva). Org. Geochem. 156: 104223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2021.104223, more Smit, N.T.; Villanueva, L.; Rush, D.; Grassa, F.; Witkowski, C.R.; Holzheimer, M.; Minnaard, A.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2021). Novel hydrocarbon-utilizing soil mycobacteria synthesize unique mycocerosic acids at a Sicilian everlasting fire. Biogeosciences 18(4): 1463-1479. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-1463-2021, more Suominen, S.; van Vliet, D.M.; Sánchez-Andrea, I.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2021). Organic matter type defines the composition of active microbial communities originating from anoxic Baltic Sea sediments. Front. Microbiol. 12: 628301. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.628301, more Suominen, S.; Dombrowski, N.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2021). A diverse uncultivated microbial community is responsible for organic matter degradation in the Black Sea sulphidic zone. Environ. Microbiol. 23(6): 2709-2728. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14902, more Suominen, S.; Doorenspleet; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2021). Microbial community development on model particles in the deep sulfidic waters of the Black Sea. Environ. Microbiol. 23(6): 2729-2746. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15024, more van Grinsven, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Harrison, J.; Polerecky, L.; Villanueva, L. (2021). Nitrate promotes the transfer of methane‐derived carbon from the methanotroph Methylobacter sp. to the methylotroph Methylotenera sp. in eutrophic lake water. Limnol. Oceanogr. 66(3): 878-891. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11648, more van Vliet, D.M.; von Meijenfeldt, F.A.B.; Dutilh, B.E.; Villanueva, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Stams, A.J.M.; Sánchez-Andrea, I. (2021). The bacterial sulfur cycle in expanding dysoxic and euxinic marine waters. Environ. Microbiol. 23(6): 2834-2857. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15265, more Villanueva, L.; von Meijenfeldt, F.A.B.; Westbye, A.B.; Yadav, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Dutilh, B.E.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2021). Bridging the membrane lipid divide: bacteria of the FCB group superphylum have the potential to synthesize archaeal ether lipids. ISME J. 15: 168-182. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00772-2, more Yadav, S.; Koenen, M.; Bale, N.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2021). The physiology and metabolic properties of a novel, low‐abundance Psychrilyobacter species isolated from the anoxic Black Sea shed light on its ecological role. Environmental Microbiology Reports 13(6): 899-910. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.13012, more Abdala Asbun, A.; Besseling, M.A.; Balzano, S.; van Bleijswijk, J.D.L.; Witte, H.J.; Villanueva, L.; Engelmann, J.C. (2020). Cascabel: A scalable and versatile amplicon sequence data analysis pipeline delivering reproducible and documented results. Frontiers in Genetics 11: 489357. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.489357, more Bale, N.J.; Koenen, M.; Yadav, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Villanueva, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2020). Diagnostic amide products of amino lipids detected in the microaerophilic bacteria Lutibacter during routine fatty acid analysis using gas chromatography. Org. Geochem. 144: 104027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104027, more Besseling, M.A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.J.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2020). The absence of intact polar lipid-derived GDGTs in marine waters dominated by Marine Group II: Implications for lipid biosynthesis in Archaea. NPG Scientific Reports 10(1): 10 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57035-0, more Carreira, C.; Lønborg, C.; Kühl, M.; Lillebø, A.I.; Sandaa, R.-A.; Villanueva, L.; Cruz, S. (2020). Fungi and viruses as important players in microbial mats. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 96(11): fiaa187. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa187, more van Bree, L.G.J.; Peterse, F.; Baxter, A.J.; De Crop, W.; van Grinsven, S.; Villanueva, L.; Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2020). Seasonal variability and sources of in situ brGDGT production in a permanently stratified African crater lake. Biogeosciences 17(21): 5443-5463. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5443-2020, more van der Graaf; Sánchez-España; Yusta; Ilin; Shetty; Bale, N.J.; Villanueva, L.; Stams, A.J.M.; Sánchez-Andrea, I. (2020). Biosulfidogenesis mediates natural attenuation in acidic mine pit lakes. Microorganisms 8(9): 1275. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8091275, more van der Graaf, C.M.; Sánchez-España, J.; Yusta, I.; Ilin, A.; Shetty, S.A.; Bale, N.J.; Villanueva, L.; Stams, A.J.M.; Sánchez-Andrea, I. (2020). Biosulfidogenesis mediates natural attenuation in acidic mine pit lakes. Microorganisms 8(9): 1275. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8091275, more van Grinsven, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Harrison, J.; Villanueva, L. (2020). Impact of electron acceptor availability on methane-influenced microorganisms in an enrichment culture obtained from a stratified lake. Front. Microbiol. 11: article 715. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00715, more van Grinsven, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Abdala Asbun, A.; Engelmann, J.C.; Harrison, J.; Villanueva, L. (2020). Methane oxidation in anoxic lake water stimulated by nitrate and sulfate addition. Environ. Microbiol. 22(2): 766-782. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14886, more van Grinsven, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2020). Assessing the effect of humic substances and Fe(III) as potential electron acceptors for anaerobic methane oxidation in a marine anoxic system. Microorganisms 8(9): 1288. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8091288, more van Vliet, D.M.; Lin; Bale, N.J.; Koenen, M.; Villanueva, L.; Stams, A.J.M.; Sánchez-Andrea, I. (2020). Pontiella desulfatans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Pontiella sulfatireligans sp. nov., two marine anaerobes of the Pontiellaceae fam. nov. producing sulfated glycosaminoglycan-like exopolymers. Microorganisms 8(6): 920. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8060920, more Yadav, S.; Villanueva, L.; Bale, N.; Koenen, M.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2020). Physiological, chemotaxonomic and genomic characterization of two novel piezotolerant bacteria of the family Marinifilaceae isolated from sulfidic waters of the Black Sea. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 43(5): 126122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126122, more Bale, N.J.; Sorokin, D.Y.; Hopmans, E.C.; Koenen, M.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Villanueva, L.; Wienk, H.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2019). New insights into the polar lipid composition of extremely halo(alkali)philic euryarchaea from hypersaline lakes. Front. Microbiol. 10: article 377. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00377, more Balzano, S.; Villanueva, L.; de Bar, M.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Yildiz, C.; Engelmann, J.C.; Maréchal, E.; Lupette, J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2019). Biosynthesis of long chain alkyl diols and long chain alkenols in Nannochloropsis spp. (Eustigmatophyceae). Plant Cell Physiol. 60(8): 1666-1682. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcz078, more Besseling, M.A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Koenen, M.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Vreugdenhil, S.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2019). Depth-related differences in archaeal populations impact the isoprenoid tetraether lipid composition of the Mediterranean Sea water column. Org. Geochem. 135: 16-31. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.06.008, more Sollai, M.; Villanueva, L.; Hopmans, E.C.; Reichart, G.-J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2019). A combined lipidomic and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing approach reveals archaeal sources of intact polar lipids in the stratified Black Sea water column. Geobiol. 17(1): 91-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12316, more Sollai, M.; Villanueva, L.; Hopmans, E.C.; Keil, R.G.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2019). Archaeal sources of intact membrane lipid biomarkers in the oxygen deficient zone of the eastern tropical South Pacific. Front. Microbiol. 10: 765. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00765, more van Vliet, D.M.; Palakawong Na Ayudthaya, S.; Diop, S.; Villanueva, L.; Stams, A.J.M.; Sánchez-Andrea, I. (2019). Anaerobic degradation of sulfated polysaccharides by two novel Kiritimatiellales strains isolated from Black Sea sediment. Front. Microbiol. 10: 253. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00253, more Balzano, S.; Lattaud, J.; Villanueva, L.; Rampen, S.W.; Brussaard, C.P.D.; van Bleijswijk, J.; Bale, N.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). A quest for the biological sources of long chain alkyl diols in the western tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Biogeosciences 15(19): 5951-5968. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5951-2018, more Besseling, M.A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Boschman, R.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2018). Benthic archaea as potential sources of tetraether membrane lipids in sediments across an oxygen minimum zone. Biogeosciences 15: 4047-4064. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4047-2018, more Heinzelmann, S.M.; Villanueva, L.; Lipsewers, Y.A.; Sinke-Schoen, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Van der Meer, M.T.J. (2018). Assessing the metabolism of sedimentary microbial communities using the hydrogen isotopic composition of fatty acids. Org. Geochem. 124: 123-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.07.011, more Lattaud, J.; Kirkels, F.; Peterse, F.; Freymond, C.V.; Eglinton, T.I.; Hefter, J.; Mollenhauer, G.; Balzano, S.; Villanueva, L.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). Long-chain diols in rivers: distribution and potential biological sources. Biogeosciences 15(13): 4147-4161. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4147-2018, more Lipsewers, Y.A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2018). Potential recycling of thaumarchaeotal lipids by DPANN Archaea in seasonally hypoxic surface marine sediments. Org. Geochem. 119: 101-109. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.12.007, more Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Foesel, B.U.; Huber, K.J.; Overmann, J.; Nakagawa, S.; Kim, J.J.; Dunfield, P.F.; Dedysh, S.N.; Villanueva, L. (2018). An overview of the occurrence of ether- and ester- linked iso-diabolic acid membrane lipids in microbial cultures of the Acidobacteria: Implications for brGDGT paleoproxies for temperature and pH. Org. Geochem. 124: 63-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.07.006, more Villanueva, L. (2018). Engineering E. coli to have a hybrid Archaeal/Bacterial membrane. Trends microbiol. (Regul. ed.) 26(7): 559-560. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2018.05.003, more Balzano, S.; Villanueva, L.; de Bar, M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2017). Impact of culturing conditions on the abundance and composition of long chain alkyl diols in species of the genus Nannochloropsis. Org. Geochem. 108: 9-17. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.02.006, more Lipsewers, Y.A.; Vasquez Cardenas, D.; Seitaj, D.; Schauer, R.; Hidalgo-Martinez, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Meysman, F.J.R.; Villanueva, L.; Boschker, H.T.S. (2017). Impact of seasonal hypoxia on activity and community structure of chemolithoautotrophic bacteria in a coastal sediment. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 83(10): e03517-16. https://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.03517-16, more Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Dedysh, S.N.; Foesel, B.U.; Villanueva, L. (2017). Pheno- and Genotyping of Hopanoid Production in Acidobacteria. Front. Microbiol. 8: 968. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00968, more Villanueva, L.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2017). Phylogenomic analysis of lipid biosynthetic genes of Archaea shed light on the ‘lipid divide’. Environ. Microbiol. 19(1): 54-69. dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13361, more Heinzelmann, S.M.; Bale, N.J.; Villanueva, L.; Sinke-Schoen, D.; Philippart, C.J.M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Van der Meer, M.T.J. (2016). Seasonal changes in the D  /  H ratio of fatty acids of pelagic microorganisms in the coastal North Sea. Biogeosciences 13: 5527-5539. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5527-2016, more Kim, J.-H.; Villanueva, L.; Zell, C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2016). Biological source and provenance of deep-water derived isoprenoid tetraether lipids along the Portuguese continental margin. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 172: 177–204. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.09.010, more Lipsewers, Y.A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Meysman, F.J.R.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2016). Abundance and diversity of denitrifying and anammox bacteria in seasonally hypoxic and sulfidic sediments of the saline Lake Grevelingen. Front. Microbiol. 7: 1661. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01661, more Lüke, C.; Speth, D.R.; Kox, M.A.R.; Villanueva, L.; Jetten, M.S.M. (2016). Metagenomic analysis of nitrogen and methane cycling in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone. PeerJ 4: e1924. dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1924, more Moore, E.K.; Hopmans, E.C.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Villanueva, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2016). 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