ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2024
Inside the Atacama Desert: uncovering the living microbiome of an extreme environment.
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- Metabolic transitions along a moisture gradient in a poly-extreme high-altitude desert ecosystem within the Atacama Desert.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Vulnerable microbial communities in Atacama-Altiplano wetlands: modern analogs of ancient ecosystems with implications for sustainability and conservation.FEMS microbes · 2026Review
- Hydrology masks warming effects on microbial communities in salt marsh soils.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Distinct strategies of soil bacterial generalists and specialists in temperate deciduous broad-leaved forests.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- From single pioneers to complex pro- and eukaryotic microbial networks in soils along a glacier forefield chronosequence in continental Antarctica.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest and most inhospitable places on Earth. To analyze the diversity and distribution of microbial communities in such an environment, one of the most important and challenging steps is DNA extraction. Using commercial environmental DNA extraction protocols, a mixture of living, dormant, and dead cells of microorganisms is extracted, but separation of the different DNA pools is almost impossible. To overcome this problem, we applied a novel method on soils across a west-east moisture transect in the Atacama Desert to distinguish between extracellular DNA (eDNA) and intracellular DNA (iDNA) at the cell extraction level. Here, we show that a large number of living and potentially active microorganisms, such as
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