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This page allows searching across the SERC catalogs: the set of resources from the web and in print that have been selected as relevant by SERC-supported projects. The catalog draws from collections created directly by our partners as well as those harvested from other digital library collections.



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History of Energy in the United States: 1635-2000 part of Web Resource Collection

This website, from the US Department of Energy, provides a history of energy use in the US from 1635-2000. It includes several figures showing how energy sources and consumption have changed through ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations

Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Homepage part of Web Resource Collection

This is the homepage for the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. The goals of the center are to "mitigate critical threats to global ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biodiversity, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Biology:Ecology, Diversity, Biology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Audio/Visual

Energy Seminar part of Web Resource Collection

This is a collection of articles about minerals and other materials that are of interest by virtue of their energy-related properties. The collection currently serves as the basis of a weekly seminar ...
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science:Energy
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Audio/Visual:Collections

One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another's part of Web Resource Collection

According to this online article, scientists have discovered a copy of the genome of the bacterial parasite Wolbachia residing inside the genome of its host species. It explains that lateral gene ...
Subject: Biology:Evolution:Processes, Biology:Molecular Biology, Biology, Evolution:Patterns, Biology:Microbiology, Evolution, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Biology:Ecology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Animations/Video

Parasite Invades Its Host's DNA part of Web Resource Collection

Number 73 out of the top 100 science stories of 2007, this article highlights the ability of Wolbachia bacteria to transfer nearly their entire genome into the cells of a multicellular host. The ...
Subject: Biology, Evolution, Microbiology, Ecology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Horizontal Gene Transfer part of Web Resource Collection

This Citizendium article offers a comprehensive review of horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Topics include main features of HGT in nature, HGT in prokaryotes, HGT in eukaryotes, history and discovery ...
Subject: Biology, Evolution, Microbiology, Ecology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Symbiosis part of Web Resource Collection

This online textbook chapter reviews symbiotic relationships, specifically mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. The chapter includes examples for each relationship as well as a discussion about ...
Subject: Biology, Microbiology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Commensalism, Biology:Evolution, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Parasitism, Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes

Symbiotic enemies fight over insect part of Web Resource Collection

This online news article reports that bacteriophage affects the control Wolbachia has over host reproduction, particularly the processes of cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in which infected males ...
Subject: Biology, Evolution, Microbiology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Viral hitchhiker inhibits Wolbachia bacteria's ability to proliferate part of Web Resource Collection

This online news brief highlights a recent study that showed a virus common to Wolbachia cells may be a key inhibitor of the cellular process that allows Wolbachia to manipulate insect reproduction. ...
Subject: Biology, Microbiology, Microbiology:Microbiology and Health, Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work

Bacteriophage part of Web Resource Collection

These online lecture notes define bacteriophage and review the composition and structure of bacteriophage, infection of host cells, and phage multiplication cycles (lytic and lysogenic). The notes ...
Subject: Biology:Microbiology, Biology
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Collections, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Audio/Visual:Audio, Animations/Video, Course Information:Course Site:Course Notes, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations