Twenty-three Species of Hypobarophilic Bacteria Recovered from Diverse Ecosystems Exhibit Growth under Simulated Martian Conditions at 0.7 kPa

• Main Authors: Schuerger, Andrew C., Nicholson, Wayne L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Life Sciences (General); Arctic; Axel Heiberg Island; Heiberg; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20180007942

Bacterial growth at low pressure is a new research area with implications for predicting microbial activity in clouds, the bulk atmosphere on Earth, and for modeling the forward contamination of planetary surfaces like Mars. Here we describe experiments on the recovery and identification of 23 speci...