Cultivation of anaerobic and facultatively anaerobic bacteria from spacecraft-associated clean rooms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3484-3491

  Stieglmeier, Michaela ^a,b   Wirth, Reinhard ^a   Kminek, Gerhard ^b   Moissl Eichinger, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ASSEMBLY OPERATIONS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; HERSCHEL SPACE OBSERVATORIES; ISOLATED STRAINS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL SPECIES; PLANETARY PROTECTIONS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; CLEAN ROOMS; CULTIVATION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; OBSERVATORIES; OXYGEN; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIODIVERSITY; DETECTION METHOD; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SPACECRAFT;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; EUROPE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACILLUS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPIONIBACTERIACEAE; PSEUDOMONAS; SPACE FLIGHT;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EUROPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPACECRAFT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; PAENIBACILLUS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 66349133628     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02565-08     Document Type: Article

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