Bacillus odysseyi
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| Colored micrograph of Bacillus odysseyi spores taken by a field-emission environmental SEM and magnified by 107. Spherical figures (about 2 µm diameter) are intact spores with exosporia. In center of image, spores (rod-shaped) were exposed to 0.5 mrad gamma radiation for 60 min, thus the exosporium (ribbon-shaped) separated.[1]
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Bacillus odysseyi is a
Mars Odyssey in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge before the spacecraft was launched to space. La Duc named the bacterium Bacillus odysseyi sp. nov. after the Odyssey mission. It had apparently evolved to live in the sparse environment of a clean room, and its secondary spore coat makes it especially resistant to radiation.[2]
B. odysseyi consists of an exosporium, spore coat,
Bacillus fusiformis and Solibacillus silvestris. The type strain for B. odysseyi is 34hs-1T (=ATCC PTA-4993T=NRRL B-30641T=NBRC 100172T).[1]
References
- ^ PMID 14742480.
- ^ Dance, Amber. “Specialized Unit Helps NASA Keep Its Dirty Little Secrets on Earth.” Los Angeles Times 6 Aug. 2007: B1, B8.
Further reading
- Jung, Min Young; Kim, Joong-Su; Paek, Woon Kee (October 2012). "Description of Lysinibacillus sinduriensis sp. nov., and transfer of Bacillus massiliensis and Bacillus odysseyi to the genus Lysinibacillus as Lysinibacillus massiliensis comb. nov. and Lysinibacillus odysseyi comb. nov. with emended description of the genus Lysinibacillus". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62 (Part 10): 2347–2355. PMID 22140163.
External links
Wikispecies has information related to Bacillus odysseyi.
The Wikibook Nomenclatural citations has a page on the topic of: Bacillus/odysseyi
- U.S. patent 7,189,556 of a “biologically pure culture of a Bacillus odysseyi isolate with high adherence and sterilization-resistant properties”
- U.S. patent 20,040,158,042 of a “biologically pure culture of a Bacillus odysseyi isolate with high adherence and sterilization-resistant properties”
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