Characterization of Bacilli isolated from the confined environments of the Antarctic Concordia station and the International Space Station

Astrobiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 323-334

  Timmery, Sophie ^a   Hu, Xiaomin ^b   Mahillon, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacillus; Confined environments; Conjugation; Oceanobacillus; Paenibacillus; Plasmid

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

AIR AND AIR RELATED PHENOMENA; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENETICS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPACE FLIGHT; TRANSPOSON;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CONFINED SPACES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SPACECRAFT;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OCEANOBACILLUS; PAENIBACILLUS;

EID: 79957459565     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2010.0573     Document Type: Article

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