Microbial monitoring of spacecraft and associated environments

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 150-158

  La Duc, M T ^a   Kern, R ^a   Venkateswaran, K ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISS PROJECT; LONG DURATION; MANNED; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA CENTER JPL; NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; PHYLOGENY; SPACE FLIGHT;

NASA CENTER JPL; NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; ISS PROJECT; LONG DURATION; MANNED;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPACECRAFT;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 2342529622     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-003-1012-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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