Life in extreme environments

Nature

Volumn 409, Issue 6823, 2001, Pages 1092-1101

  Rothschild, L J ^a   Mancinelli, R L ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOGENESIS; DESICCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; GRAVITY; HUMAN; LIFE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; REVIEW; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VACUUM;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; LIFE; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0035931866     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35059215     Document Type: Review

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