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Extremophiles: Laboratory part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.babs.unsw.edu.au/projects.php?projectID=14
This website is home of the Extremophiles Research Laboratory at the University of New South Wales. It includes a brief introduction to the lab, contact information for team leader Rick Cavicchioli, ...

Glacial lake hides bacteria part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=1098
This article highlights the published work of a geomicrobiology research team led by Eric Gaidos from the University of Hawaii and Brian Lanoil, from the University of California, Riverside. This ...

Snow Microbes found at South Pole part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/827063.stm
In the online article "Snow Microbes Found at the South Pole" BBC news scientific editor David Whitehorse highlights the identification of polar microbes with DNA sequences similar ...

Sea Floor Hot Springs As Teeming With Valuable Minerals And Microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-03h.html
This article found in SpaceDaily is a review of the research and professional affiliations of marine geologist and geophysicist Peter A. Rona of the department of geological sciences and the ...

Intimate Relationships Among the Very Small part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://ebiomedia.com/gall/micronat/relationships.html
This image-rich BioMedia article features a micro-naturalist's observation of microbial relationships. Topics include mutualism, commensalisms, parasitism, predator/prey, and scavenging. ...

The Lives of Micro-organisms: A MicroNaturalist's Handbook part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://ebiomedia.com/gall/micronat/index.html
This web site highlights a new series of photo essays featuring observations you can make with a good compound microscope, a sense of the mysteries of life waiting to be discovered, some patience, ...

Bring Um Back Alive: Techniques for Finding and Studying Living Microorganisms part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://ebiomedia.com/gall/micronat/collecting.html
This image-rich BioMedia article features tips from a micro-naturalist about finding and studying microorganisms. Topics include sampling micro-life communities, care of collected samples, more ...

Glorious Guts part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://ebiomedia.com/gall/guts/guts1.html
This image-rich BioMedia article features a micro-naturalist's account of protistan symbionts of termites. It examines the relationships between the symbionts and their hosts and offers ...

Microbiological Garden part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.pmbio.icbm.de/mikrobiologischer-garten/
The Microbiological Garden features specialized collections with images and informative paragraphs covering microbial-based topics including: foyer, microbes in the kitchen, bacteria on our skin, ...

Vorticella: Life on a Spring part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://ebiomedia.com/gall/micronat/Vorticella1.html
This image-rich BioMedia article features a micro-naturalist's observation of Vorticella isolated from a ditch on a country road. The article describes the appearance of Vorticella and details ...