Nucleic acids and melanin pigments after exposure to high doses of gamma rays: a biosignature robustness test
| Document Type: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | A. Cassaro, C. Pacelli, M. Baqué, A. Maturilli, U. Boettger, R. Moeller, A. Fujimori, J-P.P. de Vera, S. Onofri |
| Parent Title (English): | International Journal of Astrobiology |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| First Page: | 296 |
| Last Page: | 307 |
| ISSN: | 1473-5504 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550422000180 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/07/06 |
| Copyright: | © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press |
| Funding: | We thank the PNRA (Italian National Program for Antarctic Research) for supporting sample collection in Antarctica, and the Italian National Antarctic Museum 'Felice Ippolito', for funding MNA-CCFEE. We acknowledge the HIMAC team at the NIRS in Chiba, Japan for the irradiation. We thank the Italian Space Agency for the grant n. 2018-6-U.0 (BioSigN MicroFossils). |
| Keyword: | Biosignatures; ExoMars; Mars; life-detection; nucleic acids; pigments |
| Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Angewandte Naturwissenschaften |
| Institut für funktionale Gen-Analytik (IFGA) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
| Entry in this database: | 2022/07/18 |
