ReviewMicrobial ecology2022
Lithifying and Non-Lithifying Microbial Ecosystems in the Wetlands and Salt Flats of the Central Andes.
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- Microbial diversity, metabolic specialization, and genomic novelty across polyextreme saline lakes of the Central Dry Andes.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Recent Microbial Evolutionary Insights From Metagenomics.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Review
- Vulnerable microbial communities in Atacama-Altiplano wetlands: modern analogs of ancient ecosystems with implications for sustainability and conservation.FEMS microbes · 2026Review
- From genes to nanotubes: exploring the UV-resistome in the Andean extremophile Exiguobacterium sp. S17.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2025Article
- Isolation of Acanthamoeba Species and Bacterial Symbiont Variability in Puna Salt Plains, Argentina.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- Cyanobacterial mats and their associated microbiomes in saline and freshwater lakes from the Bolivian Altiplano.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Geomicrobiological characterization of the evaporitic ecosystem in the hypersaline lake Laguna Verde (Andean Puna, Northwestern Argentina).Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Protist communities of microbial mats from the extreme environments of five saline Andean lagoons at high altitudes in the Atacama Desert.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Exploring Soil Bacterial Diversity in Relation to Edaphic Physicochemical Properties of High-altitude Wetlands from Argentine Puna.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Functional characterization of xanthorhodopsin in Salinivibrio socompensis, a novel halophile isolated from modern stromatolites.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2023Article
- Dissecting Light Sensing and Metabolic Pathways on the Millimeter Scale in High-Altitude Modern Stromatolites.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Study of Wetland Soils of the Salar de Atacama with Different Azonal Vegetative Formations Reveals Changes in the Microbiota Associated with Hygrophile Plant Type on the Soil Surface.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Proteomic Signatures of Microbial Adaptation to the Highest Ultraviolet-Irradiation on Earth: Lessons From a Soil Actinobacterium.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Assessment of the plasmidome of an extremophilic microbial community from the Diamante Lake, Argentina.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Electrical conductivity as a driver of biological and geological spatial heterogeneity in the Puquios, Salar de Llamara, Atacama Desert, Chile.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Geobiology of Andean Microbial Ecosystems Discovered in Salar de Atacama, Chile.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The wetlands and salt flats of the Central Andes region are unique extreme environments as they are located in high-altitude saline deserts, largely influenced by volcanic activity. Environmental factors, such as ultraviolet (UV) radiation, arsenic content, high salinity, low dissolved oxygen content, extreme daily temperature fluctuation, and oligotrophic conditions, resemble the early Earth and potentially extraterrestrial conditions. The discovery of modern microbialites and microbial mats in the Central Andes during the past decade has increased the interest in this area as an early Earth analog. In this work, we review the current state of knowledge of Central Andes region environments found within lakes, small ponds or puquios, and salt flats of Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia, many of them harboring a diverse range of microbial communities that we have termed Andean Microbial Ecosystems (AMEs). We have integrated the data recovered from all the known AMEs and compared their biogeochemistry and microbial diversity to achieve a better understanding of them and, consequently, facilitate their protection.
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