Gonzales, Denise. MicrobesNASA. http://microbes.arc.nasa.gov/about/microbial.html (accessed 2010).
The author provides information about microbial mats and background of why NASA is interested in studying microbes due to the possibility of life, in microbial form, on other planets. The reason why NASA is interested in studying microbial mats is because the microorganisms have shown great resilience to extreme conditions, which can have far-reaching implications of life on other planets.
Michael T. Madigan, John M. Martinko, and Jack Parker. . Brock Biology of Microorganisms. Upper Sddle River: Pearson Education, Inc., 1984.
The authors have integrated the fundamental principles from past discoveries with the "state-of-the-art science of present-day technology which enables them to give detailed analyses of microbial cells. These new discoveries have catapulted microbiology into other disciplines such as ecology, agriculture, and medicine.
The authors have provided core fundamental principles which every student in microbiology should know. They then introduce microorganisms and how they evolved over time. Following, they outline the essential concepts of virology. Then viral diversity follows.
Jurkevitch, Edouard, Ed. Predatory Prokaryotes-Biology, Ecology and Evolution. . Heidelburg: Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2007.
Authors studied predatory bacteria through population dynamics and community structures. In their study they uncovered the flow of energy in ecosystems of bacteria and studied bacterial lifestyles and adaptations.
Newman, Dianne K. "How Bacteria Respire Minerals." Science, 2001: 1312-1313.
The author chronicled this article for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The author is in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences from California Institute of Technology. In this article it is revealed how microbes use minerals for respiration. It states how these microbes do these still remains a mystery because using an electron microscope to observe this reaction leads to the destruction of the microorganism.
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Speer, Brian. Introduction to the Cyanobacteria: Architects of earth's atmosphere. January 12, 2005. http://www.ucmp.berkley.edu/bacteria/cyanointro.html
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The author gives helpful insight to what cyanobacteria are, where they exist, and how long they have existed. The author also tells the importance of cyanobacteria in the production of oil deposits, providing nitrogen fertilizers to rice and beans, and in shaping the course of evolution.
Staley, James T., Robert P. Gunsalus, Stephen Lory, and Jerome J. Perry. Microbial Life. Sutherland, Mass: Sinaur Associates, Inc., 2007.
The authors reveal information on sulfur-oxidizing species such as the guild of sulfur-oxidizers. They discuss microbial mats and look at biofilms as communities. Dominant manifestations of life on Earth exist by primary producers and nonphotsynthetic archaea. Energy comes from reduced sulfur compounds.
