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Phylum: Tardigrada (water bears, tardigrades) part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/metazoa/tardigrades/...
This web page describes water bears, minute animals that can remain dormant in a dry state for over 100 years. The page addresses what they are, where they are found, their general biology, ...

Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects...
This article is a compilation of information about free-living eukaryotes in extreme environments. Written in summary form, it includes anaerobes, thermophiles, psychrophiles, acidophiles, ...

Life's Limit part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_exclusive&t...
Dr. Rocco Mancinelli of the SETI Institute is featured in this web article discussing the environmental limits to life including extreme life forms that can thrive in harsh conditions of salt, ...

Microbial Mining part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.spaceship-earth.org/REM/BRIERLEY.htm
This article discusses the use of microbial populations in the bioleaching of valuble ores from rock near or within the subsurface of the Earth.

New research challenges prevailing theory of microbial diversity part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/07/03072508190...
In this web article, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley sampled the microbe Sulfolobus islandicus from acidic hot springs across the world to study microbe diversity. The article ...

Life in extreme environments part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.nature.com/articles/35059215
This Nature insight review article "Life in extreme environments" is a detailed description of bacterial prevalence in extreme environments. ...

Microbial Ecology of an Extreme Acidic Environment, the Tinto River part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AEM.69.8.4853-4865....
This journal article analyzes the microbial ecology of the Rio Tinto, an extreme environment with a rather constant acidic pH and high concentration of heavy metals. Molecular ecology techniques are ...

Microbial Leaching of Metals part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/97835276...
This 16-page book chapter details microbial leaching of metals. Sections include an introduction, terminology, historical background, principles of microbial metal leaching, microbial diversity in ...

Heavy Metal Mining Using Microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/ann...
This 29-page journal article is a review of heavy metal mining using microbes. It details the history of biomining, general characteristics of biomining microbes, biodiversity of biomining microbes, ...

Life at the Extremes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/?id=RIOTINTO.MBL
This news source provides journalists with information about scientist Linda Amaral Zettler and the extreme environment of the Rio Tinto. The resource explains that the Rio Tinto, once considered ...