Prokaryotic Community Structure and Metabolisms in Shallow Subsurface of Atacama Desert Playas and Alluvial Fans After Heavy Rains: Repairing and Preparing for Next Dry Period

Subsurface Microbial Habitats in an Extreme Desert Mars-Analog Environment

(2019) Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Endolithic microbial habitats as refuges for life in polyextreme environment of the Atacama Desert

(2018) Jacek Wierzchos et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Groundwater recharge in desert playas: current rates and future effects of climate change

(2018) Owen P McKenna et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

(2018) Dirk Schulze-Makuch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Moisture activation and carbon use efficiency of soil microbial communities along an aridity gradient in the Atacama Desert

(2018) Davey L. Jones et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Constraints on the Metabolic Activity of Microorganisms in Atacama Surface Soils Inferred from Refractory Biomarkers: Implications for Martian Habitability and Biomarker Detection

(2018) Mary Beth Wilhelm et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Molecular biomarkers in the subsurface of the Salar Grande (Atacama, Chile) evaporitic deposits

(2018) Laura Sánchez-García et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

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

(2018) A. Azua-Bustos et al.   Scientific Reports

Environmental parameters, and not phylogeny, determine the composition of extracellular polymeric substances in microbial mats from extreme environments

(2018) Yolanda Blanco et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Controls on the chemical composition of saline surface crusts and emitted dust from a wet playa in the Mojave Desert (USA)

(2017) Harland L. Goldstein et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Xeropreservation of functionalized lipid biomarkers in hyperarid soils in the Atacama Desert

(2017) Mary Beth Wilhelm et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Taxonomic and functional patterns across soil microbial communities of global biomes

(2017) Melline Fontes Noronha et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Experimental Protocol for Detecting Cyanobacteria in Liquid and Solid Samples with an Antibody Microarray Chip

(2017) Yolanda Blanco et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Significant Impacts of Increasing Aridity on the Arid Soil Microbiome

(2017) Julia W. Neilson et al.   mSystems

The Atacama Desert: Technical Resources and the Growing Importance of Novel Microbial Diversity

(2016) Alan T. Bull et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Soil compartment is a major determinant of the impact of simulated rainfall on desert microbiota

(2016) Shazia N. Aslam et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Linking surface and subsurface properties of biocrusted and non-biocrusted habitats of fine-grained fluvial sediments (playas) from the Negev Desert

(2016) Giora J. Kidron   Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

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

(2016) Deniz Bozkurt et al.   MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW

Timing of wet episodes in Atacama Desert over the last 15 ka. The Groundwater Discharge Deposits (GWD) from Domeyko Range at 25°S.

(2016) Alberto Sáez et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Competition

(2016) Melanie Ghoul et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Nitrogen cycling in an extreme hyperarid environment inferred from δ15N analyses of plants, soils and herbivore diet

(2016) Francisca P. Díaz et al.   Scientific Reports

Actinobacteria from Arid and Desert Habitats: Diversity and Biological Activity

(2016) Fatemeh Mohammadipanah et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A highly diverse, desert-like microbial biocenosis on solar panels in a Mediterranean city

(2016) Pedro Dorado-Morales et al.   Scientific Reports

Playa Soil Moisture and Evaporation Dynamics During the MATERHORN Field Program

(2015) Chaoxun Hang et al.   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

Metagenomic analysis provides insights into functional capacity in a hyperarid desert soil niche community

(2015) Surendra Vikram et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

In situ metabolism in halite endolithic microbial communities of the hyperarid Atacama Desert

(2015) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Resuscitation of the rare biosphere contributes to pulses of ecosystem activity

(2015) Zachary T. Aanderud et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Influence of DNA Extraction Method, 16S rRNA Targeted Hypervariable Regions, and Sample Origin on Microbial Diversity Detected by 454 Pyrosequencing in Marine Chemosynthetic Ecosystems

(2014) Perrine Cruaud et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Metaproteomics of soils from semiarid environment: Functional and phylogenetic information obtained with different protein extraction methods

(2014) F. Bastida et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Microbiology of hyper-arid environments: recent insights from the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2013) Alan T. Bull et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

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

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

Colonization patterns of soil microbial communities in the Atacama Desert

(2013) Alexander Crits-Christoph et al.   Microbiome

Bacterial Communities and the Nitrogen Cycle in the Gypsum Soils of Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, Coahuila: A Mars Analogue

(2012) Nguyen E. López-Lozano et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Prokaryotic communities and operating metabolisms in the surface and the permafrost of Deception Island (Antarctica)

(2012) Yolanda Blanco et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Life at the dry edge: Microorganisms of the Atacama Desert

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

Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

(2012) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Graph-based deconvolution analysis of multiplex sandwich microarray immunoassays: applications for environmental monitoring

(2011) Luis A. Rivas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Transitions in bacterial communities along the 2000 km salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea

(2011) Daniel PR Herlemann et al.   ISME Journal

Activation of Methanogenesis in Arid Biological Soil Crusts Despite the Presence of Oxygen

(2011) Roey Angel et al.   PLoS One

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

(2010) Alberto G. Fairén et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

Distribution of polar membrane lipids in permafrost soils and sediments of a small high Arctic catchment

(2010) Janet Rethemeyer et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Changes through time: integrating microorganisms into the study of succession

(2010) Noah Fierer et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial diversity and occurrence of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in the Atacama Desert soil during a “desert bloom” event

(2010) Julieta Orlando et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

Functional analysis of natural microbial consortia using community proteomics

(2009) Nathan C. VerBerkmoes et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial competition: surviving and thriving in the microbial jungle

(2009) Michael E. Hibbing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Rain infiltration and crust formation in the extreme arid zone of the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2009) Wanda L. Davis et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Environmental proteomics: Analysis of structure and function of microbial communities

(2009) Thomas Schneider et al.   PROTEOMICS

A 200-Antibody Microarray Biochip for Environmental Monitoring: Searching for Universal Microbial Biomarkers through Immunoprofiling

(2008) Luis A. Rivas et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

SOLID2: An Antibody Array-Based Life-Detector Instrument in a Mars Drilling Simulation Experiment (MARTE)

(2008) Víctor Parro et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Succession within an Ephemeral Hypereutrophic Mojave Desert Playa Lake

(2008) Jason B. Navarro et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY