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The postflight phase of the Apollo MEED mycology attempts to identify survival according to exposure to specific quantitative space flight factors, while the second phase of studies identifies qualitative change other than cell survival [57]. Initial changes incurred in space on a fungal cell can be monitored and further examined on return of the fungal species test system to Earth. The postflight studies present a better understanding of the space environmental influences on living cells and a more clear understanding of the fungal species under examination.

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Presented as part of the Everett S. Beneke Symposium in Mycology, May 27, 1988.

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Volz, P.A. Mycology studies in space. Mycopathologia 109, 89–98 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00436789

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