Microbial Communities of High-Elevation Fumaroles, Penitentes, and Dry Tephra “Soils” of the Puna de Atacama Volcanic Zone

Growth of high-elevation Cryptococcus sp. during extreme freeze–thaw cycles

(2016) L. Vimercati et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Primary productivity of snow algae communities on stratovolcanoes of the Pacific Northwest

(2016) T. L. Hamilton et al.   Geobiology

Bacterial indicator taxa in soils under different long-term agricultural management

(2016) N.G. Jiménez-Bueno et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Genome reduction in an abundant and ubiquitous soil bacterium ‘Candidatus Udaeobacter copiosus’

(2016) Tess E. Brewer et al.   Nature Microbiology

Long term repeated fire disturbance alters soil bacterial diversity but not the abundance in an Australian wet sclerophyll forest

(2016) Ju-pei Shen et al.   Scientific Reports

Physical processes causing the formation of penitentes

(2015) P. Claudin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

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

(2015) André A. Pulschen et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Highly Heterogeneous Soil Bacterial Communities around Terra Nova Bay of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

(2015) Mincheol Kim et al.   PLoS One

Requirements and limits for life in the context of exoplanets

(2014) C. P. McKay   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metagenomic evidence for metabolism of trace atmospheric gases by high-elevation desert Actinobacteria

(2014) Ryan C. Lynch et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Characterization of bacterial communities in soil and sediment of a created riverine wetland complex using high-throughput 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing

(2013) Teele Ligi et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Microbial diversity and the presence of algae in halite endolithic communities are correlated to atmospheric moisture in the hyper-arid zone of the Atacama Desert

(2013) Courtney K. Robinson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert

(2013) Francesca Stomeo et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance

(2013) Scott Ferrenberg et al.   ISME Journal

Factors Controlling Soil Microbial Biomass and Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in a Cold Desert Ecosystem: Role of Geographic Scale

(2013) David J. Van Horn et al.   PLoS One

EMPeror: a tool for visualizing high-throughput microbial community data

(2013) Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza et al.   GigaScience

Physical ecology of hypolithic communities in the central Namib Desert: The role of fog, rain, rock habitat, and light

(2013) Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Worldwide site comparison for submillimetre astronomy

(2012) P. Tremblin et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

SINA: Accurate high-throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes

(2012) Elmar Pruesse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Rapid microbial response to the presence of an ancient relic in the Antarctic Dry Valleys

(2012) Grace Tiao et al.   Nature Communications

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Prokaryotic diversity pattern in high-altitude ecosystems of the Chilean Altiplano

(2010) Cecilia Demergasso et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Bacterial Community Structure Along Moisture Gradients in the Parafluvial Sediments of Two Ephemeral Desert Streams

(2010) Lydia H. Zeglin et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

(2010) S. Craig Cary et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Observations of water vapour and carbon monoxide in the Martian atmosphere with the SWC of PFS/MEX

(2010) G. Sindoni et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Phylogeography of microbial phototrophs in the dry valleys of the high Himalayas and Antarctica

(2010) S. K. Schmidt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stratospheric microbiology at 20 km over the Pacific Ocean

(2009) David J. Smith et al.   AEROBIOLOGIA

Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer observations of water vapor and carbon monoxide

(2009) Michael D. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The High-Lakes Project

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

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

Topographic reflection of the Socompa debris avalanche, Chile

(2008) Karim Kelfoun et al.   BULLETIN OF VOLCANOLOGY

Facilitation of endolithic microbial survival in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert by mineral deliquescence

(2008) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

High levels of microbial biomass and activity in unvegetated tropical and temperate alpine soils

(2008) A.J. King et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY