ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2017
The Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert, an Extremely Dry and Carbon Deprived Habitat of Potential Interest for the Field of Carbon Science.
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- Plant species-specific rhizobiome assembly in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Rhizospheric bacteria from the Atacama Desert hyper-arid core: cultured community dynamics and plant growth promotion.Microbiology spectrum · 2024Article
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- Nitrates as a Potential N Supply for Microbial Ecosystems in a Hyperarid Mars Analog System.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Living at the Frontiers of Life: Extremophiles in Chile and Their Potential for Bioremediation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Review
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Abstract
The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest and oldest desert on Earth, also considered one of the best Mars analog models. Here, several heterotrophic microbial communities have been discovered in its driest regions, with the ones present in the soil subsurface being one of the most interesting due to its existence in a habitat with almost no water available and almost undetectable organic carbon sources. Our recent discovery of the driest site of the Atacama known to date (and the heterotrophic microbial species that are able to survive in this site) reaffirms the opportunity to better characterize the physiological and molecular mechanisms that these species use to detect, mobilize, incorporate and use carbon under these extremely harsh conditions. Here we summarize what has been reported up to date on the organic carbon concentrations in different sites of the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, proposing that due to the meager amounts of carbon and extremely dry conditions, the microbial communities of the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert may be of interest for the field of carbon science.
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