Comparative analysis of cyanobacteria inhabiting rocks with different light transmittance in the Mojave Desert: a Mars terrestrial analogue

The BOSS and BIOMEX space experiments on the EXPOSE-R2 mission: Endurance of the desert cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis under simulated space vacuum, Martian atmosphere, UVC radiation and temperature extremes.

(2013) Mickael Baqué et al.   ACTA ASTRONAUTICA

The Mojave Vadose Zone: A Subsurface Biosphere Analogue for Mars

(2013) William Abbey et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

(2013) Francesca Stomeo et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Quantitative 3D Model of Light Transmittance Through Translucent Rocks Applied to the Hypolithic Microbial Community

(2013) Rebecca D. Jolitz et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Salt deliquescence drives photosynthesis in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

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

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

Life and Light: Exotic Photosynthesis in Binary and Multiple-Star Systems

(2012) J.T. O'Malley-James et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Hypolithic microbial communities: between a rock and a hard place

(2012) Yuki Chan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Endurance of the endolithic desert cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis under UVC radiation

(2012) Mickael Baqué et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

A cyanobacterium that contains chlorophyllf- a red-absorbing photopigment

(2012) Min Chen et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Life in (and on) the rocks

(2012) Chakkiath Paul Antony et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Microbial Colonization of the Salt Deposits in the Driest Place of the Atacama Desert (Chile)

(2012) Nunzia Stivaletta et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Supporting Mars exploration: BIOMEX in Low Earth Orbit and further astrobiological studies on the Moon using Raman and PanCam technology

(2012) Jean-Pierre de Vera et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Carbonate rocks in the Mojave Desert as an analogue for Martian carbonates

(2011) Janice L. Bishop et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Emerging Perspectives on the Mechanisms, Regulation, and Distribution of Light Color Acclimation in Cyanobacteria

(2011) Andrian Gutu et al.   Molecular Plant

Hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate alteration assemblages in the Nili Fossae region of Mars

(2010) Adrian J. Brown et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Cyanobacteria and chloroflexi-dominated hypolithic colonization of quartz at the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2010) Donnabella C. Lacap et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

A Red-Shifted Chlorophyll: Fig. 1

(2010) Min Chen et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2008) Daniela Billi   EXTREMOPHILES