Terrestrial Microorganisms at an Altitude of 20,000 m in Earth's Atmosphere

By D. Griffin. 2004

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Detailed identification of desert-originated bacteria carried by Asian dust storms to Japan (2007, background): “A large diversity of air-borne microorganisms has been identified to date; some are common inhabitants of soil, terrestrial, aquatic, and marine environments, others are present only in association with desert dust storms, while others are found in the aerosol at an altitude of 20,000 m (Bauer et al”
Atmospheric Movement of Microorganisms in Clouds of Desert Dust and Implications for Human Health (2007, methodology): “Viable fungi recovered from extreme altitudes in the atmosphere have demonstrated the ability to survive harsh conditions (77, 142, 143, 153, 200, 242).”
Phylogenetic diversity and vertical distribution of a halobacterial community in the atmosphere of an Asian dust (KOSA) source region, Dunhuang City (2008, background): “In a previous investigation, terrestrial bacteria belonging to the genus Bacillus were isolated at 20,000 m above the ground, supporting the concept of vertical transportion of microorganisms into the Earth’s upper atmosphere (Griffin 2004).”
Biogeography in the air: fungal diversity over land and oceans (2011, unknown): “Spores resist environmental stress and atmospheric transport and are thus unlikely to degrade during sampling (Griffin, 2004; Griffin and Kellogg, 2004).”
Ice nucleation by water-soluble macromolecules (2014, background): “Cultivable microorganisms are also present in the stratosphere (Griffin, 2004) and in cloud water samples (e.g., Vaitilingom et al., 2012; Joly et al., 2013).”
Environmental filtering affects soil fungal community composition more than dispersal limitation at regional scales (2014, background): “However, fungal spore traits and niches have the potential to affect dispersal (Levetin, 1990; Griffin, 2004; Ulevicius et al., 2004; Roper et al., 2008, 2010).”
Stratospheric microbiology at 20 km over the Pacific Ocean (2010, methodology): “A novel swabbing procedure was employed on the flight hardware which (1) increased the number of samples compared to historical assays ( Griffin 2004, 2008 ), (2) used several growth media (liquid and solid) to encourage diverse cell recovery, and (3) would provide a useful comparison between the fl”
Characterization of primary biogenic aerosol particles in urban, rural, and high-alpine air by DNA sequence and restriction fragment analysis of ribosomal RNA genes (2007, background): “…to be ubiquitous components of atmospheric aerosols, we think that either the applied soil DNA extraction kit was not very efficient at extracting DNA from fungal spores (Brown and Hovmoller, 2002; Boreson et al., 2004; Griffin, 2004; Griffin and Kellogg, 2004) or the amplification was inhibited.”
Microbial survival in the stratosphere and implications for global dispersal (2011, background): “Reports of viable bacteria and fungi in the stratosphere have become increasingly common (Imshenetsky et al. 1978; Lysenko 1980; Harris et al. 2002; Wainwright et al. 2002; Narlikar et al. 2003; Griffin 2004, 2008; Shivaji et al. 2006, 2009; Yang et al. 2008a, b; Smith et al. 2009).”
Atmosphere: A Source of Pathogenic or Beneficial Microbes? (2012, background): “stratosphere at altitudes of 20 km and 41 km above the sea surface [21,22].”