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New research challenges prevailing theory of microbial diversity part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Rio Tinto estuary (Spain): 5000 years of pollution part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This journal article examines the major sources of pollution in the Rio Tinto estuary of southern Spain. The introduction includes a historical perspective of the region, description of the Rio Tinto ...
Life Under a Spanish Red River part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This magazine article introduces the Rio Tinto - a polluted, acidic river in Spain - and its significance in the Mars Analog Research and Technology Experiment (MARTE). As part of NASA�s search ...
From Genes to Genomes: Beyond Biodiversity in Spain's Rio Tinto part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This journal article reports the unexpectedly high eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity in Spain's Rio Tinto. Microbes of the Rio Tinto must be both acidophilic and tolerant of heavy metals to ...
Acidophiles of saline water at thermal vents of Vulcano, Italy part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This scientific paper describes the microbial community composition of samples collected from acidic hydrothermal vents on the Aeolian Island of Vulcano (Italy). The authors review the environmental ...