Collaboration:

Kenneth Stedman - Portland State University

http://web.pdx.edu/~kstedman/research.html

Gordon Wolfe - Chico State University

http://www.csuchico.edu/%7Egwolfe2/Index.html

Resources:

Life in Extreme Environments - National Space Society

http://www.astrobiology.com/extreme.html

International Society for Extremophiles

http://extremophiles.org/

NASA exobiology home page

http://exobiology.arc.nasa.gov/

American Society for Microbiology home page

http://www.asm.org/

Yellowstone National Park Resources - including section on Yellowstone thermophiles

http://www.nps.gov/yell/publications/pdfs/handbook/

Lassen Volcanic National Park

http://www.nps.gov/lavo/

"Life in High Temperatures" 1994 Thomas D. Brock

http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Bact303/b1

U.S.G.S. Volcano Hazards team

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/

microbe zoo - for the young at heart

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/

A phylogenomic approach to microbial evolution

http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/thomas/pyphy/

 Phylogenetic relations are being examined using a genomic approach to better understand evolutionary relationships amongst prokaryotes.

DataBases

Ribosomal database project II

[http://rdp.cme.msu.edu/]

 The ribosomal RNA database contains extensive sequence information for microbial taxonomic and evolutionary studies. It contains tools useful for people using ribosomal RNA data for taxonomic purposes.

NCBI taxonomy database

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/tax.html/]

 This website is an excellent resource for obtaining the most up to date information on prokaryotic taxonomic relationships.