Table 3 Proportions of sterane abundances across the sample set

From: Biosignatures of diverse eukaryotic life from a Snowball Earth analogue environment in Antarctica

Sterane Abundances

%24-norC26

%27-norC26

%norC26-C29

%C27

%C28

%C29

%n-C30

%i-C30

i-C30/n-C30

%C31

Skua

0.05

0.40

1.74

47.95

19.68

30.62

n.p.

0.01

u.d.

n.p.

Duet

0.09

0.24

2.13

41.16

11.66

45.04

n.p.

n.p.

u.d.

n.p.

Fresh

0.50

0.20

1.17

52.45

21.45

24.76

0.04

0.13

3.4

n.p.

Roger

0.03

0.12

2.24

43.97

27.32

26.47

n.p.

n.p.

u.d.

n.p.

Cono

0.07

0.26

2.21

33.29

25.16

38.86

0.06

0.42

7.2

n.p.

Orange

0.02

0.05

0.07

45.94

27.13

26.86

n.p.

n.p.

u.d.

n.p.

Casten

0.64

0.13

1.89

49.25

17.91

30.92

n.p.

0.04

u.d.

n.p.

AMS

0.04

0.10

0.39

52.28

22.71

24.61

n.p.

n.p.

u.d.

n.p.

Legin

0.18

0.33

0.51

33.94

24.05

41.45

0.02

0.04

2.5

n.p.

Seventy

0.03

0.57

0.60

31.95

20.31

37.48

n.p.

9.63

u.d.

0.02

Brack

0.08

0.17

1.87

30.67

45.98

21.36

n.p.

0.11

32.1

n.p.

Salt

0.07

0.11

3.96

32.52

42.96

20.14

0.01

0.42

49.6

n.p.

Lagoon

0.07

0.06

0.13

37.08

33.40

29.30

0.08

0.01

0.1

n.p.

Relict

0.64

0.12

9.06

30.87

16.64

43.42

n.p.

n.p.

u.d.

n.p.

  1. Abundances were calculated using ααα20R isomers. Certain names are abbreviated: Cono is short for Conophyton, and Casten is short for Castenholz. n.p. indicates no peak; u.d. indicates undefined.
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