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Desulfitobacterium hafniense part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/draft_microbes/desha/desha.hom...
Web page highlingts the microbe Desulfitobacterium. Thess microbes can anaerobicaly dehalogenate both aromatic and alkyl chlorinated compounds. Compounds including chlorinated phenols, chlorinated ...

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, ...

The Winogradsky Column: An Animated Tutorial part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content...
This five-minute animated tutorial describes Winogradsky columns. The tutorial shows how to create a Winogradsky Column, describes the various layers and types of microbes in a column, and explains ...

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 ...

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. ...

Geomicrobiology: How Molecular-Scale Interactions Underpin Biogeochemical Systems part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;296/...
This Science scholarly article discusses the molecular biology behind geomicrobiology. It features sections about microbial diversity, microbial activity in the environment, mechanistic details, the ...

Deep Life in the Slow, Slow Lane part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.296.5570.1056
This Science Magazine article provides an overview of microorganisms able to survive deep beneath the Earth's surface. These organisms live on and within rock, slowly eating away at the rock as ...

Glass Munchers Under the Sea part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/articles/2001/10/29/glass-m...
This NASA Astrobiology Institute article documents recent findings of bacterial life beneath the sea floor. These newly discovered bacteria are thought to live as far down as 500 meters beneath the ...

Bangor Acidophile Research Team (BART), University of Wales. part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://biology.bangor.ac.uk/research/bart/
This website is operated by the Bangor Acidophile Research Team (BART), which is based in the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at the University of Wales. The group studies extremophiles, with a ...

The secrets of deep intra-terrestrial microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://web.archive.org/web/20061010081652/http://www.gmm...
This Deep Biosphere Laboratory website presents an image-rich introductory overview of life in the deep biosphere. It addresses: what is a microbe, how deep do they live, how do deep rock microbes ...