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Hot Springs Microbes Hold Key To Dating Sedimentary Rocks, Researchers Say part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a ScienceDaily article about the effect of microbes on sedimentary rock formation. It covers the process of calcium carbonate crystalization, the effect of microbes on that process, and how ...
Mix and match: how climate selects phytoplankton part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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 ...
Allopatric origins of microbial species part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a review article about microbial biogeography and speciation published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (2006). The author focuses specifically on the ...
Status of the Microbial Census part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article from Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews provides an overview of the status of microbial diversity census efforts as of 2004. The authors describe a novel bioinformatics approach ...
Global patterns in bacterial diversity part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is an article article about global bacterial diversity published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. The authors performed a meta-analysis of bacterial diversity data ...
Virtual Vacationland part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource, by the Bigelow Laboratory, is designed to help teachers and students find and use web-based Earth Sciences data and information. Content is arranged by topic: land topography, ...
Desulfitobacterium hafniense part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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
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
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
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 ...