.”Outside, July 1999, p. 88.
“a single bacterium could theoretically produce more offspring . . .” Margulis and Sagan, p. 75.
“a single bacterial cell can generate . . .” De Duve, A Guided Tour of the Living Cell, vol. 2, p. 320.
“all bacteria swim in a single gene pool.” Margulis and Sagan, p. 16.
“microbes known as Thiobacillus concretivorans . . .” Davies, p. 145.
“Some bacteria break down chemical materials . . .”National Geographic, “Bacteria,” August 1993, p. 39.
“like the scuttling limbs of an undead creature . . .” Economist, “Human Genome Survey,” July 1, 2000, p. 9.
“Perhaps the most extraordinary survival . . .” Davies, p. 146.
“their tireless nibblings created the Earth’s crust.” New York Times, “Bugs Shape Landscape, Make Gold,” October 15, 1996, p. C1.
“it would cover the planet . . .”Discover, “To Hell and Back,” July 1999, p. 82.
“The liveliest of them may divide . . .” Scientific American, “Microbes Deep Inside the Earth,” October 1996, p. 71.
“The key to long life . . .”Economist, “Earth’s Hidden Life,” December 21, 1996, p. 112.
“Other microorganisms have leapt back to life . . .”Nature, “A Case of Bacterial Immortality?” October 19, 2000, p. 844.
“claimed to have revived bacteria frozen in Siberian permafrost . . .”Economist, “Earth’s Hidden Life,” December 21, 1996, p. 111.
“But the record claim for durability . . .” New Scientist, “Sleeping Beauty,” October 21, 2000, p. 12.
“The more doubtful scientists suggested . . .” BBC News online, “Row over Ancient Bacteria,” June 7, 2001.
“Bacteria were usually lumped in with plants . . .” Sagan and Margulis, p. 22.
“In 1969, in an attempt to bring some order . . .” Sagan and Margulis, p. 23.
“By one calculation it contained . . .” Sagan and Margulis, p. 24.
“only about 500 species of bacteria were known . . .” New York Times, “Microbial Life’s Steadfast Champion,” October 15, 1996, p. C3.
“Only about 1 percent will grow in culture.” Science, “Microbiologists Explore Life’s Rich, Hidden Kingdoms,” March 21, 1997, p. 1740.
“like learning about animals from visiting zoos.” New York Times, “Microbial Life’s Steadfast Champion,” October 15, 1996, p. C7.
“Woese . . . ‘felt bitterly disappointed.’ ” Ashcroft, pp. 274-75.
“Biology, like physics before it . . .”Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Default Taxonomy; Ernst Mayr’s View of the Microbial World,” September 15, 1998.
“Woese was not trained as a biologist . . .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Two Empires or Three?” August 18, 1998.
“Of the twenty-three main divisions of life . . .” Schopf, p. 106.
“microbes would account for at least 80 percent . . .” New York Times, “Microbial Life’s Steadfast Champion,” October 15, 1996, p. C7.
“the most rampantly infectious organism on Earth . . .” Nature, “Wolbachia: A Tale of Sex and Survival,” May 11, 2001, p. 109.
“only about one microbe in a thousand . . .” National Geographic, “Bacteria,” August 1993, p. 39.
“microbes are still the number three killer . . .” Outside, July 1999, p. 88.
“once caused terrifying epidemics and then disappeared . . .” Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel, p. 208.
“a disease called necrotizing fasciitis . . .” Gawande, Complications, p. 234.
