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The ATP content of twenty-five terrestrial soil samples was estimated by the firefly luciferase assay to range from 8 × 10−3 to 1.2 × 10−1 µg/g of soil. The firefly assay is a feasible tool for exobiological work.
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MacLEOD, N., CHAPPELLE, E. & CRAWFORD, A. ATP Assay of Terrestrial Soils: A Test of an Exobiological Experiment. Nature 223, 267–268 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223267a0
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