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Article for 12 March:Dietrich WE & Perron JT 2006. The search for a topographic signature of life. Nature 439:411-419. Dietrich and Perron's article is based on a fascinating thesis - that the existence of life on Earth may imprint a characteristic signature on its landscapes which would not be the same as those seen in life's absence. The ...

This week's article was: Leininger S, Urich T, Schloter M, Schwark L, Qi J, Nicol GW, Prosser JI, Schuster SC, Schleper C 2006. Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils. Nature 442:806-809. The title was initially a bit jargony for most of us, without the presence of a soil (or any type of) biologist in this week's ...