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Microbial Nursery Production of High-Quality Biological Soil Crust Biomass for Restoration of Degraded Dryland Soils

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(2016) Remus Prăvălie   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

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Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees

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Mutational Studies of Putative Biosynthetic Genes for the Cyanobacterial Sunscreen Scytonemin in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133

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Ultrastructural Characterization of the Lower Motor System in a Mouse Model of Krabbe Disease

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Biological soil crusts accelerate the nitrogen cycle through large NO and HONO emissions in drylands

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Isolation of a significant fraction of non-phototroph diversity from a desert Biological Soil Crust

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Bacterial Targets as Potential Indicators of Diesel Fuel Toxicity in Subantarctic Soils

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Dynamic cyanobacterial response to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust

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Functional Genomics of Novel Secondary Metabolites from Diverse Cyanobacteria Using Untargeted Metabolomics

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MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

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Temperature Drives the Continental-Scale Distribution of Key Microbes in Topsoil Communities

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Development of a Direct Isolation Procedure for Free-Living Diazotrophs under Controlled Hypoxic Conditions

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NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

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Genome of the Cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatusFGP-2, a Photosynthetic Ecosystem Engineer of Arid Land Soil Biocrusts Worldwide

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The Earth Microbiome Project: Meeting report of the “1st EMP meeting on sample selection and acquisition” at Argonne National Laboratory October 6th 2010.

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Effect of biological soil crusts on soil elemental concentrations: implications for biogeochemistry and as traceable biosignatures of ancient life on land

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The Evolution of a Capacity to Build Supra-Cellular Ropes Enabled Filamentous Cyanobacteria to Colonize Highly Erodible Substrates

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Structural and functional studies of a family of Dictyostelium discoideum developmentally regulated, prestalk genes coding for small proteins

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Southern African Biological Soil Crusts are Ubiquitous and Highly Diverse in Drylands, Being Restricted by Rainfall Frequency

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