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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 ...

Salt of the Early Earth part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/223/salt-of-the-early-...
This astrobiology news article analyzes the role salt played in the evolution of life on Earth. It explains why scientists have long assumed that life originated in the sea and describes the history ...

Salt Plains Microbial Observatory part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://web.archive.org/web/20150808203059/http://www.ok...
This site is home of the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory, located in the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in northern Oklahoma. This area has permitted the first extensive study of a ...

Was the Environment for Primordial Life Hypersaline? part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrie...
This journal article explores the possibility that Halobacteria may have been one of the original forms of life. Many scientists are turning to Archaea as having a role in the origin of life, but ...

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, ...

Cabo Rojo Salterns Microbial Observatory part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://cuhwww.upr.clu.edu/~salterns/
This web site is home of the Cabo Rojo Salterns Microbial Observatory. The Cabo Rojo salterns are located in the Southwest region of Puerto Rico and are composed of an estuary, surrounded by natural ...

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 ...

Exobiology: The Survival Ability of Halophiles under Martian Conditions part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/reports/CB-1152/ber...
This report examines the ability of two halophiles isolated from San Francisco Bay to survive severe Martian conditions. The report introduces the extreme conditions on Mars and offers a brief survey ...

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. ...

Mono Lake Microbial Observatory part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://web.archive.org/web/20180317113232/http://www.jo...
This site is home of the Mono Lake Microbial Observatory. The primary goal of the Mono Lake Microbial Observatory project is to examine the distributions of Mono Lake microbes and to understand the ...