Desert Cyanobacteria - Potential for Space and Earth Applications

• Main Authors: Billi, Daniela, Verseux, Cyprien, Rothschild, Lynn, de Vera, Jean-Pierre, Baqué, Mickael, Fagliarone, Claudia
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Life Sciences (General); Exobiology; Antarctic; Nicholson; Ocampo; The Antarctic; Antarc*; polar desert
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20160013535

In cold and hot deserts, where life is pushed to its physical limits due to extreme water deficit and/or extreme temperatures, microorganisms escape life-limiting conditions by colonizing rocks. They form hypolithic biofilms at the stone-soil interface, or endolithic communities in the upper few mil...