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

• Published in: Astrobiology
• Main Authors: Schuerger, Andrew C., Nicholson, Wayne L.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2016
• Subjects: Research Articles; Arctic; Axel Heiberg Island; Heiberg; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4876496/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27135839; https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2015.1394

Bacterial growth at low pressure is a new research area with implications for predicting microbial activity in clouds and 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 s...