A Preliminary Biophysical Report on the Fertilized Eggs Traveled with Spaceflight

Author

Chen, Wei ; Wang, Wei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biol., Graduate Sch. of Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

2005

fDate

6/27/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

971

Lastpage

971

Abstract

This paper studies the difference in the eggs of fowls that have traveled in space to that of a control group. After the eggs had traveled in space onboard the Chinese ShenZhou III in 2002, a total of three silky fowls (one male and two females) and their subsequent generations of more than 1000 chicken have been hatched and bred on the ground. Over the past three years, the authors have contrasted the population to the sibling of silky fowls and the control group which mimic space bio-effect synchronously on the ground. Biophysical parameters (physical growth and development, reproductive capability, propagation, physiological biochemistry, immune function, nutrition and food consumption) have been investigated. Biomarkers such as simple sequence repeats (SSR) and random amplify polymorphic DNA (RAPD) were also used for the genetic analysis

Keywords

DNA; aerospace biophysics; biochemistry; cellular biophysics; genetics; molecular biophysics; biomarkers; chicken; fertilized eggs; food consumption; genetic analysis; immune function; nutrition; physical development; physical growth; physiological biochemistry; propagation; random amplify polymorphic DNA; reproductive capability; silky fowls; simple sequence repeats; space bio-effect; spaceflight effects; Aerospace biophysics; Bioinformatics; Biology; Biomarkers; Genetics; Genomics; Immune system; Public healthcare; Space exploration; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616578

Filename

1616578