A quest for the biological sources of long chain alkyl diols in the western tropical North Atlantic Ocean

Balzano, Sergio; Lattaud, Julie; Villanueva, Laura; Rampen, Sebastiaan W.; Brussaard, Corina P. D.; van Bleijswijk, Judith; Bale, Nicole; Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S.; Schouten, Stefan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5951-2018

Articles | Volume 15, issue 19

Biogeosciences, 15, 5951–5968, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5951-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Biogeosciences, 15, 5951–5968, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5951-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 19

Research article 10 Oct 2018

Research article | 10 Oct 2018

A quest for the biological sources of long chain alkyl diols in the western tropical North Atlantic Ocean

Sergio Balzano et al.

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RC1: 'Comment on "A quest for the biological sources of the ubiquitous long chain alkyl diols in the marine realm"', John K Volkman, 19 Apr 2018
- AC1: 'Response to the reviewer 1', Sergio Balzano, 01 May 2018
RC2: 'Comments to Balzano et al BG-2018-97', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Response to the reviewer 2', Sergio Balzano, 17 Jul 2018
RC3: 'Comments on Balzano et al. 2018', Anonymous Referee #3, 10 Jul 2018
- AC3: 'Response to the reviewer 3', Sergio Balzano, 17 Jul 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (04 Aug 2018) by Silvio Pantoja

AR by Lorena Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (22 Aug 2018) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (07 Sep 2018) by Silvio Pantoja

Short summary

We tried to identify the microbes which biosynthesize a class of lipids widespread in seawater, the long chain alkyl diols (LCDs). We could not find any microorganism likely involved in the production of LCDs. The amounts of LCDs found are too high to be produced by living organisms and are likely to be part of the refractory organic matter persisting for long periods in the water column.