ReviewAstrobiology2016
Microbial Morphology and Motility as Biosignatures for Outer Planet Missions.
Review in Astrobiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Extant life detection using label-free video microscopy in analog aquatic environments.PloS one · 2025Article
- Viability and Motility ofLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Detecting life by behavior, the overlooked sensitivity of behavioral assays.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Science Objectives for Flagship-Class Mission Concepts for the Search for Evidence of Life at Enceladus.Astrobiology · 2022Article
- Microscopic Object Classification through Passive Motion Observations with Holographic Microscopy.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Effects of Simulated Microgravity on the Physiology ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- The Possible Emergence of Life and Differentiation of a Shallow Biosphere on Irradiated Icy Worlds: The Example of Europa.Astrobiology · 2017Article
- Digital Holographic Microscopy, a Method for Detection of Microorganisms in Plume Samples from Enceladus and Other Icy Worlds.Astrobiology · 2017Article
- Glaciers and Ice Sheets As Analog Environments of Potentially Habitable Icy Worlds.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Review
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Abstract
Meaningful motion is an unambiguous biosignature, but because life in the Solar System is most likely to be microbial, the question is whether such motion may be detected effectively on the micrometer scale. Recent results on microbial motility in various Earth environments have provided insight into the physics and biology that determine whether and how microorganisms as small as bacteria and archaea swim, under which conditions, and at which speeds. These discoveries have not yet been reviewed in an astrobiological context. This paper discusses these findings in the context of Earth analog environments and environments expected to be encountered in the outer Solar System, particularly the jovian and saturnian moons. We also review the imaging technologies capable of recording motility of submicrometer-sized organisms and discuss how an instrument would interface with several types of sample-collection strategies. Key Words: In situ measurement-Biosignatures-Microbiology-Europa-Ice. Astrobiology 16, 755-774.
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