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Microbial Life in Extreme Environments
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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 ...
Sequences, sequence clusters and bacterial species part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a review article on bacterial species definition from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (2006). The paper covers current/past means of identifying bacterial species, ...
The bacterial species definition in the genomic era part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a research article published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (2006). The authors use a comparative genomics approach to evaluate the current bacterial species ...
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 ...
Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere” part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. The authors used a new high-throughput DNA sequencing technology to show that marine microbial communities ...
Protist taxonomy: an ecological perspective. part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a review article on methods, concepts, and challenges in the field of protist taxonomy. Topics covered include an introduction to protist diversity and classification; the link between ...
Recombination confounds interpretations of Wolbachia evolution. part of SERC Web Resource Collection
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
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
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
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 ...