Educators Collection of Resources on Microbial Life Under High Pressure

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• Looking for life in all the wrong places - research on cryptoendoliths:This article highlights the professional careers of two pioneer microbiologists, Imre Friedmann and his wife Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann. A personal interview with Friedmann gives readers a first hand account of the novel thoughts and discoveries of cryptoendolithic bacteria..._{(more info)}

• Extremophilic Bacteria and Microbial Diversity:This chapter from Raven and Johnson's Biology, a textbook for undergraduate majors, examines the many prokaryotic organisms that inhabit extreme environments; habitats in which some chemical or physical variables differ significantly from those found in habitats that support plant and animal life..._{(more info)}

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