Protein patterns of black fungi under simulated Mars-like conditions

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zakharova, Kristina ^a   Marzban, Gorji ^a   De Vera, Jean Pierre ^b   Lorek, Andreas ^b   Sterflinger, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ASCOMYCETES; ASTRONOMY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROCLIMATE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SPACE FLIGHT; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ASCOMYCOTA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MARS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; SPACECRAFT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84901708500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05114     Document Type: Article

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