Deinococcus radiodurans — the consummate survivor

By M. Cox, J. Battista. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2005

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Oxidative Stress Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans (2011, background): “radiodurans DNA repair machinery distinct from those of standard organisms (108, 216).”
The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution (2011, background): “encode any recognizable domains and were not upregulated upon irradiation did render the organism radiation sensitive (Blasius, et al., 2008; Cox and Battista, 2005; Makarova, et al., 2007a).”
Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world (2008, background): “radiodurans, possess extreme radiation resistance that is thought to be a side effect of their adaptive desiccation resistance (265).”
Modelling the surface and subsurface Martian radiation environment: Implications for astrobiology (2007, background): “Gamma-irradiated populations of Deinococcus radiodurans can survive 5 kGy without measurable loss of viability despite massive DNA fragmentation [Cox and Battista, 2005], and 1% survival is still found after 10 kGy.”