Survival of dormant organisms after long-term exposure to the space environment

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 68, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1574-1580

  Novikova, N ^a   Gusev, O ^c   Polikarpov, N ^a   Deshevaya, E ^a   Levinskikh, M ^a   Alekseev, V ^b   Okuda, T ^c   Sugimoto, M ^d   Sychev, V ^a   Grigoriev, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animals; Bacteria; Biorisk experiment; Dormant forms; Fungi; Higher plants; International Space Station (ISS); Outer space

Indexed keywords

BIORISK EXPERIMENT; DORMANT FORMS; HIGHER PLANTS; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS); OUTER SPACE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGY; FUNGI; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE PLATFORMS; SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACE STATIONS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79952618370     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.05.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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