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Recombination confounds interpretations of Wolbachia evolution. part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?arti...
This page contains a research article about Wolbachia evolution published in 2001. The authors present evidence of recombination between Wolbachia strains based on phylogenetic analyses. This ...

Cell evolution and Earth history: stasis and revolution part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?arti...
This review paper synthesizes data from paleontology, comparative morphology, and molecular phylogenetics into a cohesive (if extremely controversial) model of the evolution of life on Earth. Topics ...

Lateral gene transfers and the evolution eukaryotes: theories and data part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/52/5/1893.pdf
This is a review article about the role of lateral gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution. It was published in 2002 and provides good perspective on ideas that had/were changing at the time of ...

The origin and diversification of eukaryotes: problems with molecular phylogenetics and molecular clock estimation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?arti...
This is a review paper about challenges in eukaryotic phylogenetics published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The authors divide the challenges into two categories - recovering ...

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 ...

Polaromonas strain JS666 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/draft_microbes/poljs/poljs.hom...
This web page highlights the microbe Polaromonas strain JS666. The microbe was found to degrade trans-1,2-dichloroethene (tDCE), TCE, VC, 1,2-dichloroethane (1,2-DCA) and ETH in addition to coal tar; ...

Geobacter metallireducens part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/geome/geome.home.html
This web page features the microbe Geobacter metallireducens. The site briefly describes the ability of Geobacter metallireducens to gain energy through the dissimilatory reduction of iron, ...

Rhodobacter sphaeroides part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/rhosp/rhosp....
Web site highlights the photosynthetic microbe Rhodobacter sphaeroides. This microbe is known to detoxify a number of metal oxides and oxyanions. The site also describes other aspects of research on ...

Burkholderia cepacia R1808 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/draft_microbes/bur08/bur08.hom...
This web page features the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc). Comprised of at least nine closely related species, the Bcc is known for bioremediation and metabolic diversity. The site includes a ...

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, ...