| 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 | 129 | 2011 |
| 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 | 74 | 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 | 71 | 2013 |
| 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 | 55 | 2009 |
| 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 | 49 | 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 |
| The Atacama Desert in northern Chile as an analog model of Mars A Azua-Bustos, C Gonzalez-Silva, AG Fairen Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 8, 810426, 2022 | 48 | 2022 |
| Biotechnological applications derived from microorganisms of the Atacama Desert A Azua-Bustos, C González-Silva BioMed research international 2014 (1), 909312, 2014 | 40 | 2014 |
| 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 | 31 | 2012 |
| Dark microbiome and extremely low organics in Atacama fossil delta unveil Mars life detection limits A Azua-Bustos, AG Fairén, C González-Silva, O Prieto-Ballesteros, ... Nature Communications 14 (1), 808, 2023 | 25 | 2023 |
| A surface temperature and moisture intercomparison study of the Weather Research and Forecasting model, in‐situ measurements and satellite observations over the Atacama Desert R Fonseca, MP Zorzano‐Mier, A Azua‐Bustos, C González‐Silva, ... Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 145 (722), 2202-2220, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| Emendation of the coccoid cyanobacterial genus Gloeocapsopsis and description of the new species Gloeocapsopsis diffluens sp. nov. and Gloeocapsopsis dulcis sp. nov. isolated … P Jung, A Azua-Bustos, C Gonzalez-Silva, T Mikhailyuk, D Zabicki, ... Frontiers in Microbiology 12, 671742, 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
| The relevance of fungi in astrobiology research–Astromycology MF Simões, M Cortesão, A Azua-Bustos, FY Bai, F Canini, A Casadevall, ... Mycosphere 14 (1), 1190-1253, 2023 | 8 | 2023 |
| The beauty and the yeast: can the microalgae Dunaliella form a borderline lichen with Hortaea werneckii? L Muggia, P Zalar, A Azua-Bustos, C González-Silva, M Grube, ... Symbiosis 82, 123-131, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Unprecedented rains decimate surface microbial communities in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert. Sci Rep 8: 16706 A Azua-Bustos, AG Fairén, C González-Silva, C Ascaso, D Carrizo, ... | 5 | 2018 |
| Draft genome sequence of the extremely desiccation-tolerant cyanobacterium Gloeocapsopsis sp. strain AAB1 F Puente-Sánchez, C González-Silva, V Parro, J Tamames, ... Genome Announcements 6 (17), 10.1128/genomea. 00216-18, 2018 | 4 | 2018 |
| Unveiling metabolic pathways involved in the extreme desiccation tolerance of an Atacama cyanobacterium RA Moore, A Azua-Bustos, C González-Silva, CE Carr Scientific Reports 13 (1), 15767, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| Author Correction: 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 10 (1), 751, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| Author Correction: 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 9 (1), 7852, 2019 | 1 | 2019 |
