title: Microgravity and the organisms: results of the Spacelab mission D1.
abstract: During the Spacelab mission D1 different organisms were investigated at the unicellular and multicellular level respectively. Microgravity affects growth and development of the organisms in a different manner, some processes are enhanced, others are inhibited. On the other hand, there are a lot of parameters. e.g. circadian rhythm or cell and organ polarity, which seem to be exclusively under genetical control.
authors.affiliation: Botanisches Institut, Universitat Bonn, FRG.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Volkmann
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000254:growth & development; D019607:Brassicaceae / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D016764:Cell Polarity; D015509:Developmental Biology; D004330:Drosophila / Q000196:embryology; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000254:growth & development; D018466:Gravity Sensing / Q000502:physiology*; D013026:Space Flight; D014893:Weightlessness