Do fungi survive under actual space conditions? Searching for evidence in favour of lithopanspermia

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 143, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Onofri, S ^a   Selbmann, L ^a   Barreca, D ^a   Isola, D ^a   Zucconi, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Black fungi; Cryptoendolithic community; Extremotolerance; Lithopanspermia; Space conditions; Survival

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

EID: 79952208991     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500903208393     Document Type: Article

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