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Probing Biodiversity: Molecular Techniques Offer Powerful New Tools part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article introduces the molecular methods used to assess biological diversity. It begins by defining DNA and nucleotide sequencing. An illustration describes the application of molecular methods ...

Post-Viking Microbiology: New Approaches, New Data, New Insights part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This journal article, published in 1999, discusses the advances made in microbiology and microbial ecology in the 20 years since the Viking missions to Mars. The article briefly reviews this new ...

Structure of a microbial mat at Great Sippewissett Marsh, Cape Cod, Massachusetts part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This journal article reports the findings from a study analyzing the microzonation of phototrophic bacteria in a flat laminated microbial mat at Great Sippewissett Salt Marsh on Cape Cod, MA. It ...

The Microbial Basis of Life at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article discusses the sampling and in situ experiments carried out by ALVIN at various hydrothermal vent sites as well as the microbes associated with these sites. Major topics are black smokers ...

The Physiology of Vesicular-Arbuscular Endomycorrhizal Symbiosis part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This review article discusses the physiology of vesicular-arbuscular (VA) mycorrhizal symbiosis in categories reflecting successive stages in its formation and function: activation of the VA ...

Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This richly illustrated book combines vivid images from the complementary major PBS television series with imaginative original artwork to tell the compelling story of the world of microbes and their ...

Tardigrade Species Distribution Project: Lesson Plan part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.iwu.edu/~tardisdp/lessonplan.html
This online lesson plan was designed for students taking part in the active research project to document the distribution of a new species of tardigrade, a microscopic invertebrate animal. The ...

The Astrobiology Web part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.astrobiology.com
This site contains astrobiology news and links about: astrochemistry, bioinformatics, biosatellites, gravitational biology, hydrothermal vent communities, genomics, astropaleobiology, radiation ...

NCBI: Education part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/learn.shtml
This Web site from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) offers a set of detailed tutorials to help users make full use of NCBI's bioinformatics tools. The tutorials, which ...

About NCBI part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/
About NCBI explains NCBI's role in facilitating research and education specific to the "fundamental molecular and genetic processes that control health and disease." An ...