Figure 1.
General structures of diphytanylglycerol-derived lipids diethers (D) and tetraethers (T). The diphytanylglycerol lipid core of membrane lipids of Archaea is also named archaeol. X, X1, and X2 represent the head groups of polar lipids.
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