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BIOLOGY OF WOLBACHIA part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.rochester.edu/college/bio/labs/WerrenLab/My%...
This is an extensive review of Wolbachia biology published in 1997. Topics covered include history of discovery and study, phylogeny and distribution, Wolbachia-induced alterations in host ...

From Parasite to Mutualist: Rapid Evolution of Wolbachia in Natural Populations of Drosophila part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371...
This is a research paper on a case study in Wolbachia evolution published in PLoS Biology in 2007. The study takes advantage of a natural experiment - the spread of Wolbachia through California ...

Wolbachia: Evolutionary novelty in a rickettsial bacteria part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/1/10
This is a research article on Wolbachia evolution published in BMC Evolutionary Biology in 2001. It presents a molecular phylogenetic study of Wolbachia, Ehrlichia, and Rickettsia. Two gene ...

Mix and match: how climate selects phytoplankton part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v5/n10/full/nrmicr...
This is a research article from the journal Nature on the link between climate-driven physical processes and evolution of microbial communities in the ocean. Topics covered include oceanic nutrient ...

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 ...

"Miracle" Microbes Thrive at Earth's Extremes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/09/0917_040...
This news article introduces extremophiles, microbes found thriving in the most inhospitable environments on Earth. It reviews the differences between extremophiles and mesophiles, and how archaea ...

An Introduction to Biological Soil Crusts part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.soilcrust.org/crust101.htm
Biological soil crusts are the feature of this USGS Canyonlands Research Station website. The site provides an introduction to biological soil crusts with linked images, divided into the following ...

Soil Crusts: Technical Reference part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.soilcrust.org/advanced.htm
This USGS Canyonlands Research Station web page provides a link to download a 90-page PDF report summarizing current knowledge about biological soil crusts, with emphasis on crusts found in the ...

Black Smoker, Hydrothermal Vent part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/kiosk/bsmoker.html
This website features an overview of the research of Dr. Craig Cary at the University of Delaware Graduate College of Marine Studies. Dr. Cary's research focuses on black smokers and the ...

Cheating Death by Dehydration part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/207/10/i
This 'Inside JEB' journal article discusses the ability of tardigrades to undergo cryptobiosis. It briefly summarizes the experimental procedures used by Ralph Schill, Gunther Steinbruck ...