A wide variety of putative extremophiles and large beta-diversity at the Mars Desert Research Station (Utah)

International Journal of Astrobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 191-207

  Direito, Susana O L ^a   Ehrenfreund, Pascale ^b,c   Marees, Andries ^a   Staats, Martijn ^a,d   Foing, Bernard ^a   Röling, Wilfred F M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

beta diversity; desert; DNA recovery; extremophiles; Mars analogue

Indexed keywords

DESERT SOIL; DETECTION METHOD; EXTREMOPHILE; MARS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALOGY; OPTIMIZATION; RESEARCH INSTITUTION; RNA; SOIL BIOTA;

UNITED STATES; UTAH;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GEMMATIMONADETES; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 79959326629     PISSN: 14735504     EISSN: 14753006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1473550411000012     Document Type: Article

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