Spatial Variability of Microbial Communities and Salt Distributions Across a Latitudinal Aridity Gradient in the Atacama Desert

Unraveling biogeochemical phosphorus dynamics in hyperarid Mars‐analogue soils using stable oxygen isotopes in phosphate

(2020) Jianxun Shen et al.   Geobiology

Phospholipid biomarkers in Mars-analogous soils of the Atacama Desert

(2020) Jianxun Shen   International Journal of Astrobiology

Subsurface Microbial Habitats in an Extreme Desert Mars-Analog Environment

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

Halophilic microbial community compositional shift after a rare rainfall in the Atacama Desert

(2019) Gherman Uritskiy et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2019) Miguel Ángel Fernández-Martínez et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Atacama Database: a platform of the microbiome of the Atacama Desert

(2019) Carolina A. Contador et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The spatial distribution of soluble salts in the surface soil of the Atacama Desert and their relationship to hyperaridity

(2019) Claudia Voigt et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Gypsum, bassanite, and anhydrite at Gale crater, Mars

(2018) David T. Vaniman et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

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

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

The geological and climatological case for a warmer and wetter early Mars

(2018) Ramses M. Ramirez et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars

(2018) R. Orosei et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Microbial Community Structure and the Persistence of Cyanobacterial Populations in Salt Crusts of the Hyperarid Atacama Desert from Genome-Resolved Metagenomics

(2017) Kari M. Finstad et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

(2017) M. H. Hecht et al.   SCIENCE

Actinobacterial Rare Biospheres and Dark Matter Revealed in Habitats of the Chilean Atacama Desert

(2017) Hamidah Idris et al.   Scientific Reports

Functional interactions of archaea, bacteria and viruses in a hypersaline endolithic community

(2016) Alexander Crits-Christoph et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Temporal dynamics of hot desert microbial communities reveal structural and functional responses to water input

(2016) Alacia Armstrong et al.   Scientific Reports

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

Deposition, exhumation, and paleoclimate of an ancient lake deposit, Gale crater, Mars

(2015) J. P. Grotzinger et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Thermophilic and alkaliphilic Actinobacteria: biology and potential applications

(2015) L. Shivlata et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Multiplication of microbes below 0.690 water activity: implications for terrestrial and extraterrestrial life

(2014) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The crystallization water of gypsum rocks is a relevant water source for plants

(2014) Sara Palacio et al.   Nature Communications

Metal Mobilization by Iron- and Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria in a Multiple Extreme Mine Tailings in the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2013) H. Korehi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Soil Diversity and Hydration as Observed by ChemCam at Gale Crater, Mars

(2013) P.- Y. Meslin et al.   SCIENCE

Water and Brines on Mars: Current Evidence and Implications for MSL

(2013) G. M. Martínez et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Colonization patterns of soil microbial communities in the Atacama Desert

(2013) Alexander Crits-Christoph et al.   Microbiome

Extreme environments as potential drivers of convergent evolution by exaptation: the Atacama Desert Coastal Range case

(2012) Armando Azua-Bustos et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Physicochemical Conditions and Microbial Diversity Associated with the Evaporite Deposits in the Laguna de la Piedra (Salar de Atacama, Chile)

(2011) Nunzia Stivaletta et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Genome Sequence of Chthoniobacter flavus Ellin428, an Aerobic Heterotrophic Soil Bacterium

(2011) R. Kant et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Comparison of Eight Methods for the Extraction of Bacillus atrophaeus Spore DNA from Eleven Common Interferents and a Common Swab

(2011) Helen L. Rose et al.   PLoS One

Hygroscopic Salts and the Potential for Life on Mars

(2010) Alfonso F. Davila 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

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

Atmospheric origins of perchlorate on Mars and in the Atacama

(2010) D. C. Catling et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Soil Microbial Diversity in the Vicinity of a Negev Desert Shrub—Reaumuria negevensis

(2010) Vered Saul-Tcherkas et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Ancient ocean on Mars supported by global distribution of deltas and valleys

(2010) Gaetano Di Achille et al.   Nature Geoscience

Detection of oxygen isotopic anomaly in terrestrial atmospheric carbonates and its implications to Mars

(2010) R. Shaheen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental investigation of the stability and evaporation of sulfate and chloride brines on Mars

(2009) Travis Altheide et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Correction to “Stability of perchlorate hydrates and their liquid solutions at the Phoenix landing site, Mars”

(2009) V. Chevrier et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Seasonal and latitudinal differences of the saturation effect between ionosphericNmF2and solar activity indices

(2009) Ruiping Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Unravelling ancient microbial history with community proteogenomics and lipid geochemistry

(2009) Jochen J. Brocks 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

The Dry Limit of Microbial Life in the Atacama Desert Revealed by Calorimetric Approaches

(2008) N. Barros et al.   ENGINEERING IN LIFE SCIENCES

Modeling salt movement through a Mojave Desert soil

(2008) G.M. Marion et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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

Chloride-Bearing Materials in the Southern Highlands of Mars

(2008) M. M. Osterloo et al.   SCIENCE