Article
Molecular microbial diversity of a spacecraft assembly facility.
Systematic and applied microbiology - 1 Jul 2001
Venkateswaran K, Satomi M, Chung S, Kern R, Koukol R, Basic C, White D
Abstract excerpt
In ongoing investigations to map and archive the microbial footprints in various components of the spacecraft and its accessories, we have examined the microbial populations of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Spacecraft Assembly Facility (JPL-SAF). Witness plates made up of spacecraft materials, some painted with spacecraft qualified paints, were exposed for approximately 7 to 9 months at JPL-SAF and examined the...
Topics
- Bacillus
- Bacteria
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Industry
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Spacecraft
- Spores, Bacterial
- Workplace