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Life's Limit part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_exclusive&t...
Dr. Rocco Mancinelli of the SETI Institute is featured in this web article discussing the environmental limits to life including extreme life forms that can thrive in harsh conditions of salt, ...

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.

Life in Alternate Environments part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~murray/GLG130/Lectures/Lect...
This online lecture provides information about life in extreme environments from the perspective of an undergraduate geology class. It explores current conditions for life, the origins of life, and ...

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 ...

Extremophilic Bacteria and Microbial Diversity part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/raven6b/graphics/raven...
This online enhancement chapter of Raven and Johnson's Biology, a textbook for undergraduate majors, examines the many prokaryotic organisms that inhabit "extreme ...

Ferroplasma acidarmanus part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/draft_microbes/ferac/ferac.hom...
This web page provides a description and photograph of Ferroplasma acidarmanus, a newfound archaeon microbe that eats iron, lives in acid-drenched conditions, and has been identified as a chief ...

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. ...

Microbial Ecology of an Extreme Acidic Environment, the Tinto River part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AEM.69.8.4853-4865....
This journal article analyzes the microbial ecology of the Rio Tinto, an extreme environment with a rather constant acidic pH and high concentration of heavy metals. Molecular ecology techniques are ...

Microbial Leaching of Metals part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/97835276...
This 16-page book chapter details microbial leaching of metals. Sections include an introduction, terminology, historical background, principles of microbial metal leaching, microbial diversity in ...

Heavy Metal Mining Using Microbes part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/ann...
This 29-page journal article is a review of heavy metal mining using microbes. It details the history of biomining, general characteristics of biomining microbes, biodiversity of biomining microbes, ...