EXPERIMENT INFORMATION
Hypogravity's Effect on the Life Cycle of Japanese Quail (9306012 2/3)
Alternate Experiment Names
Incubator II
Experiment Type
Research Area
Developmental biology
Experiment Description
Objectives: To determine if quail embryos exposed to microgravity use minerals from the egg shell in the same manner as embryos on Earth.
Space Flight Missions:
Mission
Start Date
Duration
06/27/1995
76 days.
Data Information:
Preservation complete
No data are available to the archive for this experiment.
Additional Information About This Experiment:
Consumption, calcium Quail embryo uptake from shell Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer (ICPAES)
Content Mineral, egg shell, quail Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer (ICPAES)
Research Specimens / Subjects
Asynchronous control
Experiment References:
Hester PY, Boda K: Egg rotation during avian embryogenesis [abstract]. American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology Bulletin, vol. 11, 1997, pp. 28.
Hester PY, Orban JI, Sabo V, Boda K: Egg rotation during avian embryogenesis. Folia Veterinaria, vol. 42, 1998, pp. S67-S72.
Institutional / Personnel Support:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Ames Research Center (ARC)
Responsible NASA Representative
Ames Research Center LSDA Level 3
Project Manager: Paul Fung
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