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Hot-Water Worms May Use Bacteria as Shield part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0117_050...
This National Geographic news article highlights research being done to study the Pompeii worm (Alvinella pompejana), the most heat tolerant complex organism on Earth, and its microscopic symbionts. ...

Dr. Barbara Campbell part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/departments/biosci/faculty_...
This Clemson University Biological Sciences faculty page features Dr. Barbara Campbell, an Assistant Professor involved in several projects studying the metabolic potential of mixed microbial ...

Nanobacterium part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobacteria
This Wikipedia article contains a brief overview of nanobacteria. It includes information about various claims regarding the existence and evidence that nanobacteria are a form of life. It also ...

The Worm that Boasts Earth's Hottest Lifestyle part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://annex.exploratorium.edu/aaas-2001/dispatches/the...
This brief Exploratorium dispatch reports that the Pompeii worm, an inhabitant of hydrothermal vent ecosystems, can withstand hotter temperatures than any other creature on earth can -- except for ...

The HaloEd Project part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://halo.umbc.edu/haloed/intro
The HaloEd Project is a web site dedicated to biotechnology education using Halobacteria, halophilic bacteria that live in the hypersaline environments of the world. The site lists why Halobacteria ...

Deinococcus radiodurans part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.bacteriamuseum.org/species/Dradiodurans.shtml
This website provides general information on the radiation tolerant microbe Deinococcus radiodurans. This compilation of resources includes news articles, photographs, references, and a short lecture ...

SEM imaging of bacteria in carbonate sediments and rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/jsedres/article/63...
This Journal of Sedimentary Petrology scholarly paper details the findings of Robert Folk, the "father of nannobacteria." Folk is credited with discovering ...

Bioluminescence part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/B...
This Bioluminescence webpage is an entry in Kimball's online biology textbook. It discusses the ability of living things to emit light, the various molecules involved, how fireflies control ...

Are Viruses Alive? part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article discusses how viruses, somewhere between living and nonliving, are categorized in biology, and their role in evolution. For about 100 years, the scientific community has repeatedly ...

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 ...