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[Effect of space flight conditions on properties of hydrocarbon-oxidizing bacteria].
Prikladnaia biokhimiia i mikrobiologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Ermolenko Z M, Martovetskaia V A, Chugunov V A, Kholodenko V P
Abstract excerpt
Results of experiments on the Mir space station (EO-25 and EO-26) demonstrated that the conditions of orbital flight, primarily the cosmic radiation, was a mutagenic factor affecting both the genotype and phenotype of an oil-oxidizing bacterial strain, Mycobacterium flavescens EX-91. The emerging mutants differed from original culture by the rate of colony growth and the ability to ferment certain carbohydrates...
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