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A Laboratory of Extremophiles: Iceland Coordination Action for Research Activities on Life in Extreme Environments (CAREX) Field Campaign

scientific article published on 25 February 2013

A viability-linked metagenomic analysis of cleanroom environments: eukarya, prokaryotes, and viruses

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Adaptation to Environmental Extremes Structures Functional Traits in Biological Soil Crust and Hypolithic Microbial Communities

scientific article published in 2022

Are we There Yet? Understanding Interplanetary Microbial Hitchhikers using Molecular Methods

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Bacillus glennii sp. nov. and Bacillus saganii sp. nov., isolated from the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center where the Viking spacecraft were assembled

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Bacillus horneckiae sp. nov., isolated from a spacecraft-assembly clean room

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Bacterial Communities of Mojave Desert Biological Soil Crusts Are Shaped by Dominant Photoautotrophs and the Presence of Hypolithic Niches

scientific article published in 2020

Cleanroom Maintenance Significantly Reduces Abundance but Not Diversity of Indoor Microbiomes

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Comparison of innovative molecular approaches and standard spore assays for assessment of surface cleanliness

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Comprehensive census of bacteria in clean rooms by using DNA microarray and cloning methods

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Deinococcus phoenicis sp. nov., an extreme ionizing-radiation-resistant bacterium isolated from the Phoenix Lander assembly facility

scientific article from IJSEM published in October 2014

Deposition of extreme-tolerant bacterial strains isolated during different phases of Phoenix spacecraft assembly in a public culture collection

scientific article published on 07 January 2014

Description of Rummeliibacillus stabekisii gen. nov., sp. nov. and reclassification of Bacillus pycnus Nakamura et al. 2002 as Rummeliibacillus pycnus comb. nov.

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Description of Tersicoccus phoenicis gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from spacecraft assembly clean room environments

scientific article from IJSEM published in July 2013

Development of a Custom MALDI-TOF MS Database for Species-Level Identification of Bacterial Isolates Collected From Spacecraft and Associated Surfaces.

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Diversity of anaerobic microbes in spacecraft assembly clean rooms

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Draft Genome Sequence of Deinococcus phoenicis, a Novel Strain Isolated during the Phoenix Lander Spacecraft Assembly

scientific article published on 24 April 2014

Draft Genome Sequence of Solibacillus kalamii, Isolated from an Air Filter Aboard the International Space Station

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Draft Genome Sequences of 12 Dry-Heat-Resistant Bacillus Strains Isolated from the Cleanrooms Where the Viking Spacecraft Were Assembled.

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Draft Genome Sequences of Acinetobacter and Bacillus Strains Isolated from Spacecraft-Associated Surfaces.

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Draft Genome Sequences of Bacillus glennii V44-8, Bacillus saganii V47-23a, Bacillus sp. Strain V59.32b, Bacillus sp. Strain MER_TA_151, and Paenibacillus sp. Strain MER_111, Isolated from Cleanrooms Where the Viking and Mars Exploration Rover Space

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Editorial: MALDI-TOF MS Application in Microbial Ecology Studies

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

End-to-End Protocol for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 from Built Environments

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Five simple guidelines for establishing basic authenticity and reliability of newly generated fungal ITS sequences

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Fundamental Biological Features of Spaceflight: Advancing the Field to Enable Deep-Space Exploration

scientific article published in 2020

High-density 16S microarray and clone library-based microbial community composition of the Phoenix spacecraft assembly clean room

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International Space Station environmental microbiome - microbial inventories of ISS filter debris

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Janibacter hoylei sp. nov., Bacillus isronensis sp. nov. and Bacillus aryabhattai sp. nov., isolated from cryotubes used for collecting air from the upper atmosphere

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Ladakh: diverse, high-altitude extreme environments for off-earth analogue and astrobiology research

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Mangrovibacter phragmitis sp. nov., an endophyte isolated from the roots of Phragmites karka

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Megraft: a software package to graft ribosomal small subunit (16S/18S) fragments onto full-length sequences for accurate species richness and sequencing depth analysis in pyrosequencing-length metagenomes and similar environmental datasets

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Microbial Community and Biochemical Dynamics of Biological Soil Crusts across a Gradient of Surface Coverage in the Central Mojave Desert

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Microbial community structures of novel Icelandic hot spring systems revealed by PhyloChip G3 analysis

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Microbial succession in an inflated lunar/Mars analog habitat during a 30-day human occupation

scientific article published on 02 June 2016

Microbiomes of the dust particles collected from the International Space Station and Spacecraft Assembly Facilities

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

New perspectives on viable microbial communities in low-biomass cleanroom environments

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

Nonspecific PCR amplification of the 16S rRNA gene segment in different bacteria by use of primers specific for Campylobacter, Arcobacter, and Helicobacter spp.

scientific article published on April 2007

Paenibacillus phoenicis sp. nov., isolated from the Phoenix Lander assembly facility and a subsurface molybdenum mine.

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Paenibacillus xerothermodurans sp. nov., an extremely dry heat resistant spore forming bacterium isolated from the soil of Cape Canaveral, Florida

scientific article published on 21 August 2018

Pyrosequencing-derived bacterial, archaeal, and fungal diversity of spacecraft hardware destined for Mars

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Recurrent isolation of extremotolerant bacteria from the clean room where Phoenix spacecraft components were assembled

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Resistance of bacterial endospores to outer space for planetary protection purposes--experiment PROTECT of the EXPOSE-E mission

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STITCH: Algorithm to Splice, Trim, Identify, Track, and Capture the Uniqueness of 16S rRNAs Sequence Pairs Using Public or In-house Database ⬇️

scientific article published on November 27, 2010

Schrödinger's microbes: Tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystems

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Sterilization of hydrogen peroxide resistant bacterial spores with stabilized chlorine dioxide

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Subsurface scientific exploration of extraterrestrial environments (MINAR 5): analogue science, technology and education in the Boulby Mine, UK

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Survival of Bacillus pumilus spores for a prolonged period of time in real space conditions

scientific article published on May 2012

Taxonomic description and draft genome of Pseudomonas sediminis sp. nov., isolated from the rhizospheric sediment of Phragmites karka

scientific article published on 14 June 2018

The draft genome sequence of Mangrovibacter sp. strain MP23, an endophyte isolated from the roots of Phragmites karka

scientific article published on 19 July 2016

Venus' Spectral Signatures and the Potential for Life in the Clouds

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