Microbial colonization of halite from the hyper-arid atacama desert studied by Raman spectroscopy

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1922, 2010, Pages 3205-3221

  Vitek P ^a   Edwards, H G M ^b   Jehlicka J ^a   Ascaso, C ^c   De Los Rios A ^c   Valea, S ^c   Jorge Villar, S E ^d   Davila, A F ^e   Wierzchos, J ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atacama; Biomarkers; Cyanobacteria; Extremophiles; Mars; Pigments

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; MICROORGANISMS; PAINT; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARID CONDITIONS; ATACAMA; ATACAMA DESERT; BIOGENIC ORIGINS; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTREMOPHILES; LIFE ON MARS; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL LIFE; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; NON DESTRUCTIVE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; SURFACE OF MARS;

LANDFORMS;

MINERAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DESERT CLIMATE; MICROBIOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SOUTH AMERICA; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DESERT CLIMATE; EXOBIOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MINERALS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77955199005     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0059     Document Type: Article

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