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

Radiocarbon Evidence of Active Endolithic Microbial Communities in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert

(2013) Lori A. Ziolkowski et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Salinibacter: an extremely halophilic bacterium with archaeal properties

(2013) Aharon Oren   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Salt deliquescence drives photosynthesis in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

(2013) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Colonization patterns of soil microbial communities in the Atacama Desert

(2013) Alexander Crits-Christoph et al.   Microbiome

Endurance of the endolithic desert cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis under UVC radiation

(2012) Mickael Baqué et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Photobiont selectivity and specificity in Caloplaca species in a fog-induced community in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile

(2012) Reinaldo Vargas Castillo et al.   Fungal Biology

Geomorphologic evidence for the late Pliocene onset of hyperaridity in the Atacama Desert

(2012) R. Amundson et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

(2012) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence of species recruitment and development of hot desert hypolithic communities

(2012) Thulani P. Makhalanyane et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Incorporating 16S Gene Copy Number Information Improves Estimates of Microbial Diversity and Abundance

(2012) Steven W. Kembel et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A Microbial Oasis in the Hypersaline Atacama Subsurface Discovered by a Life Detector Chip: Implications for the Search for Life on Mars

(2011) Victor Parro et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Archaeal diversity along a subterranean salt core from the Salar Grande (Chile)

(2011) Audrey Gramain et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

De novo metagenomic assembly reveals abundant novel major lineage of Archaea in hypersaline microbial communities

(2011) Priya Narasingarao et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial diversity of the hypersaline Sidi Ameur and Himalatt Salt Lakes of the Algerian Sahara

(2011) S. Boutaiba et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A novel subaerial Dunaliella species growing on cave spiderwebs in the Atacama Desert

(2010) A. Azúa-Bustos et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Microbial colonization of Ca-sulfate crusts in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert: implications for the search for life on Mars

(2010) J. WIERZCHOS et al.   Geobiology

Cryogenic vitrification and 3D serial sectioning using high resolution cryo-FIB SEM technology for brine-filled grain boundaries in halite: first results

(2010) G. DESBOIS et al.   GEOFLUIDS

Experimental factors affecting PCR-based estimates of microbial species richness and evenness

(2010) Anna Engelbrektson et al.   ISME Journal

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic diversity of smooth and pustular microbial mat communities in the hypersaline lagoon of Shark Bay

(2009) M. A. ALLEN et al.   Geobiology

How do prokaryotes survive in fluid inclusions in halite for 30 k.y.?

(2009) B. A. Schubert et al.   GEOLOGY

Further refinement of the phylogeny of the Halobacteriaceae based on the full-length RNA polymerase subunit B' (rpoB') gene

(2009) H. Minegishi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Ancient Photosynthetic Eukaryote Biofilms in an Atacama Desert Coastal Cave

(2009) A. Azúa-Bustos et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Groups without Cultured Representatives Dominate Eukaryotic Picophytoplankton in the Oligotrophic South East Pacific Ocean

(2009) Xiao Li Shi et al.   PLoS One

Comparative Molecular Analysis of Endoevaporitic Microbial Communities

(2008) J. W. Sahl et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Xanthorhodopsin: A bacteriorhodopsin-like proton pump with a carotenoid antenna

(2008) Janos K. Lanyi et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Wide genetic diversity of picoplanktonic green algae (Chloroplastida) in the Mediterranean Sea uncovered by a phylum-biased PCR approach

(2008) Manon Viprey et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Novelty and spatio–temporal heterogeneity in the bacterial diversity of hypersaline Lake Tebenquiche (Salar de Atacama)

(2008) Cecilia Demergasso et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

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

rrnDB: documenting the number of rRNA and tRNA genes in bacteria and archaea

(2008) Z. M.-P. Lee et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The spatial and temporal variability of fog and its relation to fog oases in the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2007) P. Cereceda et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

The climate of the coast and fog zone in the Tarapacá Region, Atacama Desert, Chile

(2007) P. Cereceda et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH