Sensitive life detection strategies for low-biomass environments: optimizing extraction of nucleic acids adsorbing to terrestrial and Mars analogue minerals

Effect of Soil Clay Content on RNA Isolation and on Detection and Quantification of Bacterial Gene Transcripts in Soil by Quantitative Reverse Transcription-PCR

(2011) A. Novinscak et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Amplification Methods Bias Metagenomic Libraries of Uncultured Single-Stranded and Double-Stranded DNA Viruses

(2011) Kyoung-Ho Kim et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparison of commercial DNA extraction kits for isolation and purification of bacterial and eukaryotic DNA from PAH-contaminated soils

(2011) Nagissa Mahmoudi et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

The adsorption of short single-stranded DNA oligomers to mineral surfaces

(2011) H. James Cleaves et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Soil-specific limitations for access and analysis of soil microbial communities by metagenomics

(2011) Nathalie Lombard et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Astrobiology and habitability studies in preparation for future Mars missions: trends from investigating minerals, organics and biota

(2011) P. Ehrenfreund et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

A wide variety of putative extremophiles and large beta-diversity at the Mars Desert Research Station (Utah)

(2011) Susana O.L. Direito et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Effect of DNA Extraction Method on the Apparent Microbial Diversity of Soil

(2010) O. Inceoglu et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

An evaluation of commercial DNA extraction kits for the isolation of bacterial spore DNA from soil

(2010) S.M. Dineen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Bias in the Cq value observed with hydrolysis probe based quantitative PCR can be corrected with the estimated PCR efficiency value

(2010) Jari Michael Tuomi et al.   METHODS

Strategy for Extracting DNA from Clay Soil and Detecting a Specific Target Sequence via Selective Enrichment and Real-Time (Quantitative) PCR Amplification

(2009) K. K. Yankson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

An improved electroelution method for separation of DNA from humic substances in marine sediment DNA extracts

(2009) Jens Kallmeyer et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Contributions of Phosphate to DNA Adsorption/Desorption Behaviors on Aminosilane-Modified Magnetic Nanoparticles

(2009) Tsuyoshi Tanaka et al.   LANGMUIR

The Influence of Soil Organic Matter on DNA Adsorptions on Andosols

(2009) Kazutoshi Saeki et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Amplification efficiency: linking baseline and bias in the analysis of quantitative PCR data

(2009) J. M. Ruijter et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Urey Instrument: An Advanced In Situ Organic and Oxidant Detector for Mars Exploration

(2008) Andrew D. Aubrey et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Respiratory and dissimilatory nitrate-reducing communities from an extreme saline alkaline soil of the former lake Texcoco (Mexico)

(2008) Rocio J. Alcántara-Hernández et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Hydrated silicate minerals on Mars observed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter CRISM instrument

(2008) John F. Mustard et al.   NATURE

Orbital Identification of Carbonate-Bearing Rocks on Mars

(2008) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   SCIENCE