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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, ...

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, ...

The X-philes: microorganisms at the extremes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~wolfman/Essays/philes.html
This personal website of Richard Johnson, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University , gives a detailed overview of the field of extremophile research. Topics covered include ...

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.

Extremophiles part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://atropos.as.arizona.edu/aiz/teaching/a204/extremop...
This article introduces the reader to the diversity and significance of extremophiles. Descriptions are provided of the habitat and ecology of thermophiles, psychrophiles (cold lovers), acidophiles, ...

Exobiology in the Solar System and the Search for Life on Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.esa.int/esapub/sp/sp1231/sp1231.pdf
This 180-page report of the European Space Agency offers an exobiological view of the solar system and describes the search for life on Mars. Exobiology sections include: chemical evolution in the ...

Extremophilic Bacteria and Microbial Diversity part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/raven6b/graphics/raven...
This online enhancement chapter of Raven and Johnson's Biology, a textbook for undergraduate majors, examines the many prokaryotic organisms that inhabit "extreme ...

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 ...