Unprecedented rains decimate surface microbial communities in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert

Nitrate Deposits of the Atacama Desert: A Marker of Long-Term Hyperaridity

(2018) Martin Reich et al.   Elements

Detection of Perchlorate and the Soluble Chemistry of Martian Soil at the Phoenix Lander Site

(2017) M. H. Hecht et al.   SCIENCE

Extremely high UV-C radiation resistant microorganisms from desert environments with different manganese concentrations

(2016) Ivan Glaucio Paulino-Lima et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY

Impact of Warmer Eastern Tropical Pacific SST on the March 2015 Atacama Floods

(2016) Deniz Bozkurt et al.   MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW

CYANOCHIP: An Antibody Microarray for High-Taxonomical-Resolution Cyanobacterial Monitoring

(2015) Yolanda Blanco et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Evidence for indigenous nitrogen in sedimentary and aeolian deposits from theCuriosityrover investigations at Gale crater, Mars

(2015) Jennifer C. Stern et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimating the potential for solar energy utilization in Chile by satellite-derived data and ground station measurements

(2015) Rodrigo A. Escobar et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Discovery and microbial content of the driest site of the hyperarid Atacama Desert, Chile

(2015) Armando Azua-Bustos et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

(2013) James J. Kozich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Habitability on Mars from a Microbial Point of View

(2013) Frances Westall et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

Gloeocapsopsis AAB1, an extremely desiccation-tolerant cyanobacterium isolated from the Atacama Desert

(2013) Armando Azua-Bustos et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Silicified Biota in High-Altitude, Geothermally Influenced Ignimbrites at El Tatio Geyser Field, Andean Cordillera (Chile)

(2013) Roberto Barbieri et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Ribosomal Database Project: data and tools for high throughput rRNA analysis

(2013) James R. Cole et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Enrichment of arsenic transforming and resistant heterotrophic bacteria from sediments of two salt lakes in Northern Chile

(2012) José Lara et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Life at the dry edge: Microorganisms of the Atacama Desert

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

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

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

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

Astrobiology through the Ages of Mars: The Study of Terrestrial Analogues to Understand the Habitability of Mars

(2010) Alberto G. Fairén et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

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

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

Marinimicrobium locisalis sp. nov., isolated from a marine solar saltern, and emended description of the genus Marinimicrobium

(2009) J.-H. Yoon et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Bosque: integrated phylogenetic analysis software

(2008) S. Ramirez-Flandes et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging

(2008) D. Posada   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION