Aeolian transport of viable microbial life across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for Mars

Here we inspect whether microbial life may disperse using dust transported by wind in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, a well-known Mars analog model. By setting a simple experiment across the hyperarid core of the Atacama we found that a number of viable bacteria and fungi are in fact able to...

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Autores principales: Azua-Bustos, Armando, González-Silva, Carlos, Fernández-Martínez, Miguel Ángel, Arenas-Fajardo, Cristián, Fonseca, Ricardo, Martín-Torres, F. Javier, Fernández-Sampedro, Maite, Fairén, Alberto G., Zorzano, María-Paz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6706390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31439858
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47394-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6706390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31439858
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47394-z

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