Drosophila behaviour & gene expression in altered gravity conditions: Comparison between space and ground facilities

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn 663 SP, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Herranz, Raúl ^a,b   Lavàn, David A ^b   Dijkstra, Camelia ^c   Larkin, Oliver ^c   Davey, Michael R ^c   Loon, Jack J W A Van ^d   Medina, F Javier ^d   Marco, Roberto ^b   Schiller, Peter ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGES; GENE EXPRESSION; MAGNETIC LEVITATION; MAGNETIC LEVITATION VEHICLES; MAGNETS; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; ROCK MECHANICS; SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACE STATIONS;

COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; GRAVITY CONDITIONS; GROUND FACILITIES; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; RANDOM POSITIONING; SIMULATED MICROGRAVITY; SIMULATED WEIGHTLESSNESS; SIMULATION APPROACH;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 66949144339     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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