Open Questions: Microbiology

Microbeworld Related Web Sites: Informational/educational Web sites dealing with all types of microbes covered by Microbeworld.

micro*scope: "A communal web site that promotes information on the biodiversity of microbes." Describes and provides images of microbes, arranged in taxonomic classification.
American Society for Microbiology: Professional society for researchers and educators dealing with all aspects of microbiology. Services include Microbe Magazine, weekly news digest, Microbeworld educational web site, MicrobeLibrary.org library of peer-reviewed resouces for undergraduate teaching, and a daily podcast.
Microbeworld: Educational site about archaea, bacteria, fungi, protista, virusrs, and microbial mergers (symbionts), sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology. Includes resources for educators and students, news, and external links.
Microbe Magazine: Monthly educational and news magazine published monthly in both print and online form. Very good articles. The online version is open access.
The quorum sensing site: "This site aims to be a "one stop shop" for quorum sensing research. It includes an overview of the field, links to researchers worldwide and descriptions of research carried out at Nottingham." It deals with communication among bacteria.

Microbiology: Article from Wikipedia.
Virus: Article from Wikipedia.
Bacterium: Article from Wikipedia.
Nanobacterium: Article from Wikipedia.
The discovery of endogenous retroviruses: Professional review article published in Retrovirology about the discovery of retroviruses in the 1960s.
Medical Microbiology: Complete online textbook, edited by Samuel Baron. Index. Part of the NCBI Bookshelf.
Retroviruses: Complete online textbook, by John M. Coffin, Stephen H. Hughes, and Harold E. Varmus. Index. Part of the NCBI Bookshelf.
Lean Gene Machine: December 2005 Scientific American Web Feature, about the bacterium Pelagibacter ubique, which has only 1354 genes in its genome, among the least of any free living organism.
Talking Bacteria: February 2004 Scientific American Insights article, subtitled "Microbes seem to talk, listen and collaborate with one another."

In the Business of Synthetic Life
Sam Jaffe
Scientific American, April 2005
Are Viruses Alive?
Luis P. Villarreal
Scientific American, December 2004
Synthetic Life
W. Wayt Gibbs
Scientific American, May 2004
Battling Biofilms
J.W. Costerton; Philip S. Stewart
Scientific American, July 2001
Why and How Bacteria Communicate
Losick, Kaiser
Scientific American, February 1997