Diversity and Ice Nucleation Activity of Microorganisms Collected With a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) in France and the United States

Many microbes relevant to crops, domestic animals, and humans are transported over long distances through the atmosphere. Some of these atmospheric microbes catalyze the freezing of water at higher temperatures and facilitate the onset of precipitation. We collected microbes from the lower atmospher...

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Main Authors: Celia Jimenez-Sanchez, Regina Hanlon, Ken A. Aho, Craig Powers, Cindy E. Morris, David G. Schmale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
UAS
UAV
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01667/full