Bacillus Endospores Isolated from Granite: Close Molecular Relationships to Globally Distributed Bacillus spp. from Endolithic and Extreme Environments

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Fajardo-Cavazos, Patricia, Nicholson, Wayne
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2006
• Subjects: Geomicrobiology; Antarctic; Catalina; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449054; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16597992; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.72.4.2856-2863.2006

As part of an ongoing effort to catalog spore-forming bacterial populations in environments conducive to interplanetary transfer by natural impacts or by human spaceflight activities, spores of Bacillus spp. were isolated and characterized from the interior of near-subsurface granite rock collected...