UV-resistant yeasts isolated from a high-altitude volcanic area on the Atacama Desert as eukaryotic models for astrobiology

The significance of the Dewar valence photoisomer as a UV radiation-induced DNA photoproduct in marine microbial communities

(2014) Jarah A. Meador et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Experimental evidence for the formation of liquid saline water on Mars

(2014) Erik Fischer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Potential and limits of Raman spectroscopy for carotenoid detection in microorganisms: implications for astrobiology

(2014) J. Jehli ka et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Protein patterns of black fungi under simulated Mars-like conditions

(2014) Kristina Zakharova et al.   Scientific Reports

Microbes in the Upper Atmosphere and Unique Opportunities for Astrobiology Research

(2013) David J. Smith   ASTROBIOLOGY

Wavelength dependence of biological damage induced by UV radiation on bacteria

(2012) Ana L. Santos et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Life at the hyperarid margin: novel bacterial diversity in arid soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2012) Julia W. Neilson et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Life at the dry edge: Microorganisms of the Atacama Desert

(2012) Armando Azua-Bustos et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Isolation of oligotrophic yeasts from supraglacial environments of different altitude on the Gulkana Glacier (Alaska)

(2012) Jun Uetake et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Astrobiology in Brazil: early history and perspectives

(2012) Fabio Rodrigues et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

The potential for microbial life in the highest-elevation (>6000 m.a.s.l.) mineral soils of the Atacama region

(2012) R. C. Lynch et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Isolation of UVC-Tolerant Bacteria from the Hyperarid Atacama Desert, Chile

(2012) Ivan Gláucio Paulino-Lima et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Extremophilic Acinetobacter Strains from High-Altitude Lakes in Argentinean Puna: Remarkable UV-B Resistance and Efficient DNA Damage Repair

(2012) Virginia Helena Albarracín et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Photoinduced Damage to Cellular DNA: Direct and Photosensitized Reactions†

(2012) Jean Cadet et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY

Comparative Survival Analysis of Deinococcus radiodurans and the Haloarchaea Natrialba magadii and Haloferax volcanii Exposed to Vacuum Ultraviolet Irradiation

(2011) Ximena C. Abrevaya et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Death by protein damage in irradiated cells

(2011) Michael J. Daly   DNA REPAIR

Oxidative Stress Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans

(2011) D. Slade et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

The microbe-mineral environment and gypsum neogenesis in a weathered polar evaporite

(2010) C. S. COCKELL et al.   Geobiology

DNA (6-4) Photolyases Reduce Dewar Isomers for Isomerization into (6-4) Lesions

(2010) Andreas F. Glas et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Laboratory simulation of interplanetary ultraviolet radiation (broad spectrum) and its effects on Deinococcus radiodurans

(2010) Ivan Gláucio Paulino-Lima et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Solutes determine the temperature windows for microbial survival and growth

(2010) Jason P. Chin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resistance of Antarctic black fungi and cryptoendolithic communities to simulated space and Martian conditions

(2010) S. Onofri et al.   STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY

Yeasts from high-altitude lakes: influence of UV radiation

(2009) Diego Libkind et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The High-Lakes Project

(2009) Nathalie A. Cabrol et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Photoprotective role of carotenoids in yeasts: Response to UV-B of pigmented and naturally-occurring albino strains

(2009) Martín Moliné et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY

Carotenes and carotenoids in natural biological samples: a Raman spectroscopic analysis

(2009) Vanessa E. de Oliveira et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Extremophile Culture Collection from Andean Lakes: Extreme Pristine Environments that Host a Wide Diversity of Microorganisms with Tolerance to UV Radiation

(2009) Omar F. Ordoñez et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Evolution of Mutation Rates: Phylogenomic Analysis of the Photolyase/Cryptochrome Family

(2009) J. I. Lucas-Lledo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Diversity of culturable actinomycetes in hyper-arid soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2008) Chinyere K. Okoro et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Fumarole-Supported Islands of Biodiversity within a Hyperarid, High-Elevation Landscape on Socompa Volcano, Puna de Atacama, Andes

(2008) E. K. Costello et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Subcellular integrities in Chroococcidiopsis sp. CCMEE 029 survivors after prolonged desiccation revealed by molecular probes and genome stability assays

(2008) Daniela Billi   EXTREMOPHILES

Ultraviolet radiation-induced limitation to epilithic microbial growth in arid deserts – Dosimetric experiments in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert

(2008) Charles S. Cockell et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY

Variability in UVB Tolerances of Melanized and Nonmelanized Cells ofCryptococcus neoformansandC. laurentii

(2008) Letícia A. Schiave et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY

Adaptive Melanin Response of the Soil Fungus Aspergillus niger to UV Radiation Stress at “Evolution Canyon”, Mount Carmel, Israel

(2008) Natarajan Singaravelan et al.   PLoS One

Chloride-Bearing Materials in the Southern Highlands of Mars

(2008) M. M. Osterloo et al.   SCIENCE