Building a Geochemical View of Microbial Salt Tolerance: Halophilic Adaptation of Marinococcus in a Natural Magnesium Sulfate Brine

Microbial Diversity in a Hypersaline Sulfate Lake: A Terrestrial Analog of Ancient Mars

(2017) Alexandra Pontefract et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Ionic Strength Is a Barrier to the Habitability of Mars

(2016) Mark G. Fox-Powell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Microbial community of the deep-sea brine LakeKryosseawater-brine interface is active below the chaotropicity limit of life as revealed by recovery of mRNA

(2015) Michail M. Yakimov et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Late-stage formation of Martian chloride salts through ponding and evaporation

(2015) Brian M. Hynek et al.   GEOLOGY

Water structure and chaotropicity: their uses, abuses and biological implications

(2015) Philip Ball et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Prokaryotic biodiversity of halophilic microorganisms isolated from Sehline Sebkha Salt Lake (Tunisia)

(2014) HEDI Abdeljabbar et al.   African Journal of Microbiology Research

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

(2014) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The epsomitic phototrophic microbial mat of Hot Lake, Washington: community structural responses to seasonal cycling

(2013) Stephen R. Lindemann et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial Growth at the High Concentrations of Magnesium Sulfate Found in Martian Soils

(2012) J.D. Crisler et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A universal measure of chaotropicity and kosmotropicity

(2012) Jonathan A. Cray et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Structure and diversity of bacterial, eukaryotic and archaeal communities in glacial cryoconite holes from the Arctic and the Antarctic

(2011) Karen A. Cameron et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Physicochemical properties of concentrated Martian surface waters

(2011) Nicholas J. Tosca et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Halophilic enzyme activation induced by salts

(2011) Gabriel Ortega et al.   Scientific Reports

High Abundance of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea in Coastal Waters, Determined Using a Modified DNA Extraction Method

(2010) H. Urakawa et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Thermodynamic limits to microbial life at high salt concentrations

(2010) Aharon Oren   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Silica-rich deposits and hydrated minerals at Gusev Crater, Mars: Vis-NIR spectral characterization and regional mapping

(2009) M.S. Rice et al.   ICARUS

Marinococcus luteus sp. nov., a halotolerant bacterium isolated from a salt lake, and emended description of the genus Marinococcus

(2009) Y. Wang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative community genomics in the Dead Sea: an increasingly extreme environment

(2009) Idan Bodaker et al.   ISME Journal

Characterization of halophiles in natural MgSO4 salts and laboratory enrichment samples: Astrobiological implications for Mars

(2009) Ian S. Foster et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Structural Basis for the Aminoacid Composition of Proteins from Halophilic Archea

(2009) Xavier Tadeo et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Water Activity and the Challenge for Life on Early Mars

(2008) N. J. Tosca et al.   SCIENCE