Matt+Kane

Dr. Matthew D. Kane Program Director Division of Environmental Biology National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22230 USA Telephone: (703) 292-7186 Fax: (703) 292-9064 Email: mkane@nsf.gov URL: []

Ecosystem Science Dimensions of Biodiversity Emerging Trends in Biogeochemical Cycles (ETBC) Microbial Systems in the Biosphere (MSB) Microbial Observatories and Microbial Interactions and Processes (MO/MIP) Microbial Genome Sequencing Program (MGSP) Science and Technology Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education (C-MORE) Environmental Genomics (EN-GEN) Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) International Polar Year (IPY) Biocomplexity: Genome-Enabled Environmental Sciences & Engineering (BE:GEN-EN) Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Surveys & Inventories Evolutionary Biology Synthesis Center Special Competition Microbial Genetics/Prokaryotic Biology Ecology of Infectious Diseases Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn)
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Kane. M. D. and U. Mueller. 2001. Insights from insect-microbe symbioses. In: J.T. Staley and A.-L. Reysenbach (eds.) //Biodiversity of Microbial Life: Foundation of Earth’s Biosphere//; John Wiley & Sons, pp.289-313. Donovan, S. E., K. J. Purdy, M. D. Kane, T. M. Embley, and P. Eggleton**.** 2004. Comparison of the euryarchaeal microbial community in guts and food-soil of the soil-feeding termite //Cubitermes fungifaber// across different soil types. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. **70:** 3884-3892. Kane, M.D. 2004. Microbial observatories: exploring and discovering microbial diversity in the 21st century. Microb. Ecol. **48:** 447-448. Floyd, M. M., J. Tang, M. Kane and D. Emerson. 2005. Captured diversity in a culture collection: case study of the geographic and habitat distributions of environmental isolates held at the American Type Culture Collection. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. **71 :** 2813-2823. Hughes Martiny, J.B., B.J.M. Bohannan, J.H. Brown, R.K. Colwell, J. Fuhrman, J. Green, M. C. Horner-Devine, M. Kane, J.A. Krumings, C.R. Kuske, P. Morin, S. Naeem, L. Ovreas, A.-L. Reysenbach, V. Smith and J. Staley. 2006. Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map. Nature Rev. Microbiol. **4**:102-112. Field, D. et al (including 53 other authors). Minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification. 2008. Nature Biotechnol. **26**: 541-47. Taylor, C. F., D. et al (including 53 other authors). 2008. Promoting coherent minimum reporting guidelines for biological and biomedical investigations: the MBBI project. Nature Biotechnol. **26:** 1-8.
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