Remote automated multi-generational growth and observation of an animal in low Earth orbit

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 68, 2012, Pages 596-599

  Oczypok, Elizabeth A ^a   Etheridge, Timothy ^b   Freeman, Jacob ^c   Stodieck, Louis ^c   Johnsen, Robert ^d   Baillie, David ^d   Szewczyk, Nathaniel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Caenorhabditis elegans; Interplanetary transfer; Spaceflight

Indexed keywords

ASTROBIOLOGY; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; EARTH (PLANET); INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; ORBITS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE RESEARCH;

BIOLOGICAL MODELS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CULTURE SYSTEMS; DISTANCE SPACE; ELEGANS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; GROWTH ARREST; INTERPLANETARY MISSION; INTERPLANETARY TRANSFER; LOW EARTH ORBITS; PLANETARY BODIES;

ANIMALS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH DISORDER; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PROGENY; SPACE FLIGHT; STARVATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84856833340     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0716     Document Type: Article

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