| Life at the dry edge: microorganisms of the Atacama Desert A Azua-Bustos, C Urrejola, R Vicuña FEBS letters 586 (18), 2939-2945, 2012 | 192 | 2012 |
| The astrobiology primer v2. 0 SD Domagal-Goldman, KE Wright, SD Domagal-Goldman, KE Wright, ... Astrobiology 16 (8), 561-653, 2016 | 184 | 2016 |
| 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 | 132 | 2011 |
| Discovery and microbial content of the driest site of the hyperarid A tacama D esert, C hile A Azua‐Bustos, L Caro‐Lara, R Vicuña Environmental microbiology reports 7 (3), 388-394, 2015 | 102 | 2015 |
| Unprecedented rains decimate surface microbial communities in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert A Azua-Bustos, AG Fairén, C González-Silva, C Ascaso, D Carrizo, ... Scientific reports 8 (1), 16706, 2018 | 82 | 2018 |
| Isolation of UVC-tolerant bacteria from the hyperarid Atacama Desert, Chile IG Paulino-Lima, A Azua-Bustos, R Vicuña, C González-Silva, L Salas, ... Microbial ecology 65, 325-335, 2013 | 73 | 2013 |
| Extremely high UV-C radiation resistant microorganisms from desert environments with different manganese concentrations IG Paulino-Lima, K Fujishima, JU Navarrete, D Galante, F Rodrigues, ... Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 163, 327-336, 2016 | 69 | 2016 |
| Ancient photosynthetic eukaryote biofilms in an Atacama Desert coastal cave A Azúa-Bustos, C González-Silva, RA Mancilla, L Salas, RE Palma, ... Microbial ecology 58, 485-496, 2009 | 60 | 2009 |
| The Atacama Desert in northern Chile as an analog model of Mars A Azua-Bustos, C González-Silva, AG Fairen Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 8, 810426, 2022 | 53 | 2022 |
| Aeolian transport of viable microbial life across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for Mars A Azua-Bustos, C González-Silva, MÁ Fernández-Martínez, ... Scientific Reports 9 (1), 11024, 2019 | 52 | 2019 |
| A novel subaerial Dunaliella species growing on cave spiderwebs in the Atacama Desert A Azúa-Bustos, C González-Silva, L Salas, RE Palma, R Vicuña Extremophiles 14, 443-452, 2010 | 49 | 2010 |
| Gloeocapsopsis AAB1, an extremely desiccation-tolerant cyanobacterium isolated from the Atacama Desert A Azua-Bustos, J Zúñiga, C Arenas-Fajardo, M Orellana, L Salas, ... Extremophiles 18, 61-74, 2014 | 44 | 2014 |
| A roadmap for planetary caves science and exploration TN Titus, JJ Wynne, MJ Malaska, A Agha-Mohammadi, PB Buhler, ... Nature Astronomy 5 (6), 524-525, 2021 | 43 | 2021 |
| The extremely halotolerant black yeast Hortaea werneckii - a model for intraspecific hybridization in clonal fungi P Zalar, J Zupančič, C Gostinčar, J Zajc, GS de Hoog, F De Leo, ... IMA fungus 10, 1-27, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| Biotechnological applications derived from microorganisms of the Atacama Desert A Azua-Bustos, C González-Silva BioMed research international 2014 (1), 909312, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| Aspergillus atacamensis and A. salisburgensis: two new halophilic species from hypersaline/arid habitats with a phialosimplex-like morphology L Martinelli, P Zalar, N Gunde-Cimerman, A Azua-Bustos, K Sterflinger, ... Extremophiles 21, 755-773, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
| The hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, an extremely dry and carbon deprived habitat of potential interest for the field of carbon science A Azua-Bustos, C González-Silva, G Corsini Frontiers in microbiology 8, 993, 2017 | 31 | 2017 |
| Extreme environments as potential drivers of convergent evolution by exaptation: the Atacama Desert Coastal Range case A Azua-Bustos, C González-Silva, C Arenas-Fajardo, R Vicuña Frontiers in microbiology 3, 426, 2012 | 30 | 2012 |
| Inhabited subsurface wet smectites in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert as an analog for the search for life on Mars A Azua-Bustos, AG Fairén, CG Silva, D Carrizo, MÁ Fernández-Martínez, ... Scientific Reports 10 (1), 19183, 2020 | 29 | 2020 |
| Fundamental science and engineering questions in planetary cave exploration JJ Wynne, TN Titus, A Agha‐Mohammadi, A Azua‐Bustos, PJ Boston, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 127 (11), e2022JE007194, 2022 | 28 | 2022 |
