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Extremophiles in Antarctica during 1989-2004

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

Studies on biodiversity of microorganisms in Antarctica were carried out since 20 years.

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Particularly attention was made on those microorganisms defined for their growth conditions extremophiles. The studies were also devoted to cyanobacteria in that these prokaryoted are interesting for the studies on earth evolution.

Many new extremophiles were isolated belonging to bacteria domain as new species of genus Bacillus, Halomonas, Micrococcus, Alicyclobacillus. They were thermophiles and halophilic and alkalophiles. Studies on lipid composition and its modulation under stressed growth conditions were carried out.

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Exo- and endopolymers were isolated and studies as well as hydrolytic enzymes.

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Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
SourceKeyLast seenRaw
NASA Earthdata CMRC1214620811-SCIOPS12 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/bacteria-archaeasource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/bacteria-archaea/cyanobacteria-blue-green-algaesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/ecological-dynamics/community-dynamics/biodiversity-functionssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:field-investigationsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0