Studies on bacteria-like particles sampled from the stratosphere

Aerobiologia

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 237-240

  Wainwright, M ^a   Weber, P K ^b   Smith, J B ^b   Hutcheon, I D ^b   Klyce, B ^c   Wickramasinghe, N C ^d   Narlikar, J V ^e   Rajaratnam, P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Astrobiology Research Trust   (United States)

^d Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology   (United Kingdom)

^e INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^f INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Panspermia; Scanning electron microscopy; SIMS; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE ACETATE;

AIR SAMPLING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRATOSPHERE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 19944431729     PISSN: 03935965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10453-004-1188-x     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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3. Wainwright M., Wickramasinghe N.C., Narlikar J.V. and Rajaratnam P.: 2004, Are these stratospheric nanoparticles bacteria? Microbiology 150, 756-758.