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DOI	10.1038/s41598-019-47394-z
	Aeolian transport of viable microbial life across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for Mars
	Azua-Bustos, Armando 1,2; Gonzalez-Silva, Carlos 3; Angel Fernandez-Martinez, Miguel 1; Arenas-Fajardo, Cristian 4; Fonseca, Ricardo 5; Javier Martin-Torres, F.5,6; Fernandez-Sampedro, Maite 1; Fairen, Alberto G.1,7; Zorzano, Maria-Paz 1,5
通讯作者	Azua-Bustos, Armando
来源期刊	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN	2045-2322
出版年	2019
卷号	9
英文摘要	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 traverse the driest and most UV irradiated desert on Earth unscathed using wind-transported dust, particularly in the later afternoon hours. This finding suggests that microbial life on Mars, extant or past, may have similarly benefited from aeolian transport to move across the planet and find suitable habitats to thrive and evolve.
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Spain ; Chile ; Sweden ; USA
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000482181700001
WOS关键词	SP-NOV. ; GEN. NOV. ; DUST STORMS ; HALOTOLERANT ; TAXONOMY ; SEQUENCE ; PROPOSAL ; REGION ; SOIL ; SEA
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/218806
作者单位	1.CSIC, Ctr Astrobiol, INTA, Madrid 28850, Spain; 2.Univ Autonoma Chile, Fac Ciencias Salud, Inst Ciencias Biomed, Santiago, Chile; 3.Univ Tarapaca, Fac Ciencias, Arica, Chile; 4.Atacama Biotech, Santiago, Chile; 5.Lulea Univ Technol, Dept Comp Sci Elect & Space Engn, Div Space Technol, Lulea, Sweden; 6.CSIC, UGR, Inst Andaluz Ciencias Tierra, Granada, Spain; 7.Cornell Univ, Dept Astron, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Azua-Bustos, Armando,Gonzalez-Silva, Carlos,Angel Fernandez-Martinez, Miguel,et al. Aeolian transport of viable microbial life across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for Mars[J],2019,9.
APA	Azua-Bustos, Armando.,Gonzalez-Silva, Carlos.,Angel Fernandez-Martinez, Miguel.,Arenas-Fajardo, Cristian.,Fonseca, Ricardo.,...&Zorzano, Maria-Paz.(2019).Aeolian transport of viable microbial life across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for Mars.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,9.
MLA	Azua-Bustos, Armando,et al."Aeolian transport of viable microbial life across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for Mars".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 9(2019).