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The Microbial Arsenic Cycle in Mono Lake, California part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://phys4.harvard.edu/~wilson/arsenic/references/Orem...
This minireview summarizes the biogeochemical arsenic cycle in the alkaline, hypersaline Mono Lake. Some prokaryotes of the lake have evolved biochemical mechanisms to exploit arsenate and arsenite, ...

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 Wonders of the Deep: Halophiles part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.thesecondlayer.com/marine/halophiles.html
This reference site describes the adaptations of truly halophilic organisms that have a dependency upon high salt concentrations for survival. It discusses the creation of different hypersaline ...

Microbial Wonders of the Deep part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.thesecondlayer.com/marine/
Microbial Wonders of the Deep explores a number of interesting and highly adaptive organisms within some of the most extreme environments imaginable- those of the deep ocean. The website focuses on ...

Extremophiles: Laboratory part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.babs.unsw.edu.au/projects.php?projectID=14
This website is home of the Extremophiles Research Laboratory at the University of New South Wales. It includes a brief introduction to the lab, contact information for team leader Rick Cavicchioli, ...

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 ...

Alkaline Hypersaline Lakes as Analogs for Ancient Microbial Habitats on Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/sci/fifthconf99/6136.pdf
This site features a scientific article associated with the Mars Global Surveyor Project, reporting data collected from a study analyzing Mono Lake as a terrestrial analog to Mars. The study is ...

Biology of Moderately Halophilic Aerobic Bacteria part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mmbr.asm.org/cgi/content/full/62/2/504
Biology of Moderately Halophilic Aerobic Bacteria is a 41-page, in-depth review article. It includes detailed sections about the taxonomy and phylogeny, ecology, physiology, enzymes, cell envelopes, ...

Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6806/abs/4078...
This journal article reports the isolation and growth of a previously unrecognized spore-forming bacterium (Bacillus species) from a brine inclusion within a 250-million-year-old salt crystal from ...

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 ...