Mars-like soils in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the dry limit of microbial life R Navarro-González, FA Rainey, P Molina, DR Bagaley, BJ Hollen, ... Science 302 (5647), 1018-1021, 2003 | 632 | 2003 |
Temperature and moisture conditions for life in the extreme arid region of the Atacama Desert: four years of observations including the El Nino of 1997–1998 CP McKay, EI Friedmann, B Gómez-Silva, L Cáceres-Villanueva, ... Astrobiology 3 (2), 393-406, 2003 | 431 | 2003 |
Hypolithic cyanobacteria, dry limit of photosynthesis, and microbial ecology in the hyperarid Atacama Desert KA Warren-Rhodes, KL Rhodes, SB Pointing, SA Ewing, DC Lacap, ... Microbial ecology 52, 389-398, 2006 | 368 | 2006 |
Facilitation of endolithic microbial survival in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert by mineral deliquescence AF Davila, B Gómez‐Silva, A de Los Rios, C Ascaso, H Olivares, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 113 (G1), 2008 | 180 | 2008 |
The Atacama Desert: technical resources and the growing importance of novel microbial diversity AT Bull, JA Asenjo, M Goodfellow, B Gómez-Silva Annual Review of Microbiology 70 (1), 215-234, 2016 | 160 | 2016 |
Microbial colonization of Ca‐sulfate crusts in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert: implications for the search for life on Mars J Wierzchos, B Cámara, A de Los Rios, AF Davila, IM Sánchez Almazo, ... Geobiology 9 (1), 44-60, 2011 | 160 | 2011 |
Hypolithic cyanobacteria supported mainly by fog in the coastal range of the Atacama Desert A Azúa-Bustos, C González-Silva, RA Mancilla, L Salas, B Gómez-Silva, ... Microbial Ecology 61, 568-581, 2011 | 125 | 2011 |
Comparative analysis of the microbial communities inhabiting halite evaporites of the Atacama Desert A Ríos, S Valea, C Ascaso, AF Dávila, J Kastovsky, CP McKay, ... Sociedad Española de Microbiología, 2010 | 117 | 2010 |
Microbial diversity and the presence of algae in halite endolithic communities are correlated to atmospheric moisture in the hyper‐arid zone of the A tacama D esert CK Robinson, J Wierzchos, C Black, A Crits‐Christoph, B Ma, J Ravel, ... Environmental microbiology 17 (2), 299-315, 2015 | 109 | 2015 |
Fungi associated with rocks of the A tacama D esert: taxonomy, distribution, diversity, ecology and bioprospection for bioactive compounds VN Gonçalves, CL Cantrell, DE Wedge, MC Ferreira, MA Soares, ... Environmental microbiology 18 (1), 232-245, 2016 | 96 | 2016 |
Survival of microorganisms under the extreme conditions of the Atacama Desert K Dose, A Bieger-Dose, B Ernst, U Feister, B Gómez-Silva, A Klein, S Risi, ... Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 31, 287-303, 2001 | 86 | 2001 |
Relative humidity patterns and fog water precipitation in the Atacama Desert and biological implications L Cáceres, B Gómez‐Silva, X Garró, V Rodríguez, V Monardes, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 112 (G4), 2007 | 82 | 2007 |
Atacama Desert soil microbiology B Gómez-Silva, FA Rainey, KA Warren-Rhodes, CP McKay, ... Microbiology of extreme soils, 117-132, 2008 | 73 | 2008 |
Halophilic microbial community compositional shift after a rare rainfall in the Atacama Desert G Uritskiy, S Getsin, A Munn, B Gomez-Silva, A Davila, B Glass, J Taylor, ... The ISME Journal 13 (11), 2737-2749, 2019 | 70 | 2019 |
Use of phycobiliproteins from atacama cyanobacteria as food colorants in a dairy beverage prototype A Galetović, F Seura, V Gallardo, R Graves, J Cortés, C Valdivia, J Núñez, ... Foods 9 (2), 244, 2020 | 67 | 2020 |
Distribution of scytonemin in endolithic microbial communities from halite crusts in the hyperarid zone of the Atacama Desert, Chile P Vítek, J Jehlička, C Ascaso, V Mašek, B Gómez-Silva, H Olivares, ... FEMS microbiology ecology 90 (2), 351-366, 2014 | 64 | 2014 |
Chlorophyll biosynthesis from glutamate or 5-aminolevulinate in intact Euglena chloroplasts B Gomez-Silva, MP Timko, JA Schiff Planta 165, 12-22, 1985 | 56 | 1985 |
Fungal diversity in the Atacama Desert IF Santiago, VN Gonçalves, B Gómez-Silva, A Galetovic, LH Rosa Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 111, 1345-1360, 2018 | 53 | 2018 |
Lithobiontic life:“Atacama rocks are well and alive” B Gómez-Silva Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 111 (8), 1333-1343, 2018 | 52 | 2018 |
Deinococcus peraridilitoris sp. nov., isolated from a coastal desert FA Rainey, M Ferreira, MF Nobre, K Ray, D Bagaley, AM Earl, JR Battista, ... International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 57 (7 …, 2007 | 44 | 2007 |