Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal

By R. Vreeland, W. Rosenzweig, D. W. Powers. Nature, 2000

718 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ffac58dc916ccb06ca0b26a8c8f8ee9e0185ec64

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

In Molecular Biology

Citations in the corpus

The Habitability of Planets Orbiting M-dwarf Stars (2016, background): “…persist in fluid inclusions in salt crystals (Norton & Grant, 1988), potentially surviving for timescales on the order of millions of years (Vreeland et al., 2000), and use atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrogen to fix organic compounds within gypsum halite crusts (Rothschild et al.,…”
Resistance of Microorganisms to Extreme Environmental Conditions and Its Contribution to Astrobiology (2010, background): “On Earth, microbes were brought back to life after 250 million years [153].”
Microbial Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPSs) in Ocean Systems (2017, background): “Interestingly, studies have shown that bacteria can survive in a desiccated state in salt crystal for 250 my (Vreeland et al., 2000).”
Spores of Bacillus subtilis: their resistance to and killing by radiation, heat and chemicals (2006, background): “However, spores can survive for many years, certainly hundreds, and there are reports suggesting that spores may survive for millions of years (Kennedy et al. 1994; Cano and Borucki 1995; Vreeland et al. 2000).”
Life in extreme environments (2001, background): “Although highly controversial, bacteria might survive for millions of years in the fluid inclusions of salt deposits including evaporite”
Bacterial Spores Survive Simulated Meteorite Impact (2001, background): “Bacterial endospores exhibit incredible longevity – survival times up to 25 to 250 Ma have been reported (Cano and Borucki, 1995; Vreeland et al. 2000 ).”
Screening of bacteria and concrete compatible protection materials (2015, background): “Besides, self-immobilization [16,17] and salt encapsulation [18] can be achieved during the production of non-axenic cultures if the appropriate conditions are provided.”
Role of Dipicolinic Acid in Resistance and Stability of Spores of Bacillus subtilis with or without DNA-Protective α/β-Type Small Acid-Soluble Proteins (2006, background): “As a consequence, spores can survive for extremely long periods, certainly hundreds of years and perhaps much longer (5, 15, 37).”
Survival of bacteria exposed to extreme acceleration: implications for panspermia (2001, background): “The average transit time from Earth to Mars is longer since only a small fraction of material ejected from Earth reaches Mars within 150 million years of ejection [33], although the recent claim [34] that terrestrial spores may be viable after 250 million years dormancy in salt may make such an Eart”
Genetic analyses from ancient DNA. (2004, background): “First among these were chloroplast DNA sequences from Miocene plant compression fossils (35, 135), followed by DNA sequences from insects and plants in amber (13, 22, 113), a mitochondrial DNA from a Cretaceous dinosaur bone from Utah (170), DNA sequences from bacteria in the guts of amber-entombed ”