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Deposition of extreme-tolerant bacterial strains isolated during different phases of Phoenix spacecraft assembly in a public culture collection.
Astrobiology - 1 Jan 2014
Venkateswaran Kasthuri, Vaishampayan Parag, Benardini James N, Rooney Alejandro P, Spry J Andy
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Extreme-tolerant bacteria (82 strains; 67 species) isolated during various assembly phases of the Phoenix spacecraft were permanently archived within the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Culture Collection in Peoria, Illinois. This represents the first microbial collection of spacecraft-associated surfaces within the United States to be deposited into a freely available,...
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