Tardigrades survive exposure to space in low Earth orbit

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Jönsson, K Ingemar ^a   Rabbow, Elke ^b   Schill, Ralph O ^c   Harms Ringdahl, Mats ^d   Rettberg, Petra ^b  

^a KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; INVERTEBRATE; LETTER; MICROCLIMATE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPACE FLIGHT; SURVIVAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VACUUM;

ANIMALS; COSMIC RADIATION; EARTH (PLANET); EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATES; OVUM; SPACE FLIGHT; SURVIVAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VACUUM;

ANIMALIA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 51049124478     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.048     Document Type: Letter

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