Frank Reith, Maggy F Lengke, Donna Falconer, David Craw and Gordon Southam School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, CSIRO Land and Water, Waite Laboratories, Urrbrae, South Australia, Australia; Geomega Inc., Boulder, CO, USA; Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, Londo...

Despite the predominance of aquatic environments on the planet Earth, microbial abundance and diversity within soil environments exceed that of the aquatic realm. Most of what we know of viral ecology within natural systems has come through investigations of aquatic environments. However, the 'aquatic-bias' in viral ecology is beginning to change as the cultivation-independent approaches, which...

Rick Lumpkin and Gustavo J. Goni (Physical Oceanography Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, Florida), Pedro N. DiNezio (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida) and Nikolai A. Maximenko (International Pacif...

D. Trail, S. J. Mojzsis, T. M. Harrison, and H. F. Levison Department of Geological Sciences and Center of Astrobiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0399 USA. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Australia. Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado 80302 USA. ([email protected], mojzsi...

E. Golfetto,†,‡ A. Baraldi,*,†,§ M. Pozzo, D. Alfè,|,⊥ A. Sala,†,# P. Lacovig,†,∇ E. Vesselli,†,§ S. Lizzit,∇ G. Comelli,†,§ and R. Rosei†,‡,§ Physics Department and Center of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials, UniVersity of Trieste, Via Valerio 2, I-34127 Trieste, Italy, Laboratorio “Nanotecnologie per l’Energia”, Consorzio per la Fisica, S.S. 14 Km 163.5, 34149 Trieste, Italy, Laborator...

J . C A M E R O N T H R A S H , † J . I A N V A N T R U M P , † K A R R I E A . W E B E R , † E L I S A B E T H M I L L E R , ‡ L A U R I E A . A C H E N B A C H , ‡ A N D J O H N D . C O A T E S * , † , § Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, Department of Microbiology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, and Eart...

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, U.K. [email protected] Department of Geology, The Field Museum, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60606, USA. Laboratory of Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest, 1 N. Balcescu Ave., 70111, Bucharest, Romania. Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen,...