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Revealing Genotypical Characteristics, Defining Individual Differences in Resistance of Biological Oranisms to Factors of Long Duration Space Flight (Poligen)
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Experiment Overview

This content was provided by Yu P. Altukhov, Ph.D., and is maintained in a database by the ISS Program Science Office.

Brief Summary

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Principal Investigator(s)

  • Yu P. Altukhov, Ph.D., Russia

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    Developer(s)
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    Sponsoring Space Agency

    Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)

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    Research Benefits

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    ISS Expedition Duration:

    March 2001 - September 2011

    Expeditions Assigned

    2,7,19/20,21/22,23/24,27/28

    Previous ISS Missions

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    Experiment Description

    Research Overview

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    Description

    Defining genetic criteria for revealing living organisms with a maximum possible resistance to extreme conditions of a prolonged space flight.

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    Applications

    Space Applications

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    Earth Applications

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    Operations

    Operational Requirements

    Drozofila kit containing object under study (fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaser).

    Operational Protocols

    Identifying an integral structure of genotype of test objects - populations of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaser. Comparing the genetic characteristics obtained with the results of investigating fruit fly capability to endure space flights.

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    Results/More Information

    Search for genetic criteria for revealing living organisms with a maximum possible resistance extreme conditions of a prolonged space flight.

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    Related Websites
  • Coordinating Scientific and Technical Council of the Russian Space Agency [Russian]
  • Energia - Science Research on the ISS Russian Segment

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    Imagery

    image Drozofila kit.
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    image One of the Drozofila containers.
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