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New approaches to the study of Antarctic lithobiontic microorganisms and their inorganic traces, and their application in the detection of life in Martian rocks part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.im.microbios.org/articles0203/2002/december/0...
This International Microbiology review article discusses possible ways to study cryptoendolithic (orgamisms living within pores of a rock) life in Antarctica using microscopy and how these studies ...

Chromium(VI) Reduction Pathway Map part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://umbbd.ethz.ch/cr6/cr6_map.html
This site describes chrome pathways in the environment with respect to several different bacteria species. This site also contains links to references, compounds, and microbe identification as well ...

Microbial Mining part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.spaceship-earth.org/REM/BRIERLEY.htm
This article discusses the use of microbial populations in the bioleaching of valuble ores from rock near or within the subsurface of the Earth.

Effect of humic acids on the bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from aquifers contaminated with petroleum part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.bioremediationgroup.org/BioReferences/Tier1Pa...
This web paper investigates the influence of humic acids on the microbial degradation of PAHs in fuel and oil products at a contaminated site. Solubility and mobility of PAHs in contaminated aquifers ...

Deinococcus geothermalis part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/deige/deige.home.html
Site describes the radiation resistant microbe Deinococcus geothermalis and a close relative. Included in the web page is a list of References. The site also has links to other aspect of the microbe ...

Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/burfu/burfu....
This web page describes the microbe Burkholderia xenovorans strain LB400. Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 is a know aerobic degrader of PCBs, as well as degrading benzoate. The page gives some genomic ...

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 ...

Glacial lake hides bacteria part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=1098
This article highlights the published work of a geomicrobiology research team led by Eric Gaidos from the University of Hawaii and Brian Lanoil, from the University of California, Riverside. This ...

Sea Floor Hot Springs As Teeming With Valuable Minerals And Microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-03h.html
This article found in SpaceDaily is a review of the research and professional affiliations of marine geologist and geophysicist Peter A. Rona of the department of geological sciences and the ...

Phylogenetic Analysis of the Hyperthermophilic Pink Filament Community in Octopus Spring, Yellowstone National Park part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?arti...
This journal article reports the molecular phylogenetic approach used to analyze a microbial community associated with the 84 to 88 degrees C outflow from Octopus Spring. The authors perform ...