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Revealing Genotypical Characteristics, Defining Individual Differences in Resistance of Biological Oranisms to Factors of Long Duration Space Flight (Poligen)
03.22.12

Overview | Description | Applications | Operations | Results | Publications | Images

Experiment/Payload Overview

Information provided courtesy of the Energia website.
Brief Summary

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Principal Investigator

  • Yu P. Altukhov, Ph.D., , , , Russia

    • Co-Investigator(s)/Collaborator(s)

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    Sponsoring Space Agency

    Roscosmos

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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/Payload Description

    Research Summary

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

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    Publications

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    Ground Based Results Publications

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    Images

    imageDrozofila kit.


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    imageOne of the Drozofila containers.


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    Information provided by the investigation team to the ISS Program Scientist's Office.
    If updates are needed to the summary please contact JSC-ISS-Program-Science-Group. For other general questions regarding space station research and technology, please feel free to call our help line at 281-244-6187 or e-mail at JSC-ISS-Payloads-Helpline.
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