Microbial characterization of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft and its encapsulation facility

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 977-985

  La Duc, Myron T ^a   Nicholson, Wayne ^b   Kern, Roger ^a   Venkateswaran, Kasthuri ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCETALES; BACILLUS; COSMIC RADIATION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MARS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDANTS; PHYLOGENY; SPACECRAFT; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SPORES, FUNGAL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER RADIORESISTENS; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ACTINOMYCETALES; AQUASPIRILLUM; AUREOBASIDIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; RALSTONIA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; VARIOVORAX;

EID: 0141788251     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00496.x     Document Type: Article

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