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The development of cooperative associations between animals and bacteria: Establishing detente among domains part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3746/is_1998...
This scholarly journal article examines aspects of how alliances with prokaryotes may have been integrated into the mechanisms and patterns of host animal developmental programs. Major concepts ...

Microbial Diversity of Cryptoendolithic Communities from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/AEM.69.7.3858-...
This Applied and Environmental Microbiology abstract contains information about the diversity of Antarctic cryptoendoliths (microbes that live within rock pores), as determined by molecular studies. ...

Cryptoendolith Communities in Antarctic Dry Valley Region Sandstones: Potential Analogues of Martian Life-Forms part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2003/pdf/1576.pdf
This Lunar and Planetary Science article provides information about cryptoendolithic life (microbes living within rocks on the Earth's surface) in Antarctic sandstones. The purpose of the study ...

New approaches to the study of Antarctic lithobiontic microorganisms and their inorganic traces, and their application in the detection of life in Martian rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.im.microbios.org/articles0203/2002/december/0...
This International Microbiology review article discusses possible ways to study cryptoendolithic (orgamisms living within pores of a rock) life in Antarctica using microscopy and how these studies ...

ARNAT: Australian Research Network for Algal Toxins part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.aims.gov.au/arnat/arnat-00001.htm
This website features ARNAT, a research network hosted by the Australian Institute for Marine Sciences (AIMS) aimed at heightening communication among researchers studying toxic algae found in ...

Phycologia part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.intphycsoc.org/phycologia.lasso
This website features the journal Phycologia, which is published bimonthly by the International Phycological Society and serves as a publishing medium for information about any aspect of phycology, ...

The Provasoli-Guillard National Center for the Culture of Marine Phytoplankton (CCMP) part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://ccmp.bigelow.org/future/hmenuz.php?daurl=http://c...
This website features Bigelow Laboratory's CCMP, the national culture collection of marine phytoplankton for the USA. The CCMP has over 2100 strains from around the world, the preponderant ...

Domoic Acid part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.inchem.org/documents/pims/animal/pim670.htm
This highly detailed chemical information page features domoic acid, a toxin associated with Amnesic shellfish poisoning and naturally produced by the red algae Chondria armata and diatoms of the ...

Harmful Algae part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_...
This website features Harmful Algae, a journal promoting knowledge of harmful microalgae, including cyanobacteria, as well as monitoring, management and control of these organisms. Papers include the ...

IOC Harmful Algal Bloom Programme part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://ioc.unesco.org/hab/
This Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) website aims to foster the effective management of, and scientific research on, harmful algal blooms (HAB) to understand their causes, predict ...