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(E)-N-(3-(5-(3-Acetamidopropyl)-3,6-dioxopiperazin-2-yl)propyl)-5-hydroxy-3-methylpent-2-enamide

Molbank, 2023
The Atacama Desert is an unexplored habitat with interesting possibilities for natural product chemistry due to the adaptations employed by microorganisms to survive the extreme salinity and high UV radiation present.
Gagan Preet, Rishi Vachaspathy Astakala, Joy Ebenezer Rajakulendran, Emmanuel T. Oluwabusola, Rainer Ebel, Marcel Jaspars   +5 more
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Introducing the Atacama Desert [PDF]

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2018
This brief introduction is intended to orientate the reader with respect to the principal environmental and historical features of the Atacama Desert, the oldest and continuously driest non-polar temperate desert on Earth. Exploration of its microbiology is relatively recent but both fundamental and applied research activities have grown dramatically ...
Alan T. Bull, Barbara A. Andrews, Cristina Dorador, Michael Goodfellow   +3 more
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Inside the Atacama Desert: uncovering the living microbiome of an extreme environment [PDF]

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Dirk Wagner, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Samuel Kounaves   +2 more
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Iron acquisition and mineral transformation by cyanobacteria living in extreme environments

Materials Today Bio, 2022
Iron is an essential micronutrient for most living organisms, including cyanobacteria. These microorganisms have been found in Earth's driest polar and non-polar deserts, including the Atacama Desert, Chile.
Wei Huang, Taifeng Wang, Cesar Perez-Fernandez, Jocelyne DiRuggiero, David Kisailus   +4 more
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Evaluation of MODIS-derived estimates of the albedo over the Atacama Desert using ground-based spectral measurements

Scientific Reports, 2021
Surface albedo is an important forcing parameter that drives the radiative energy budget as it determines the fraction of the downwelling solar irradiance that the surface reflects.
Raúl R. Cordero, Sarah Feron, Edgardo Sepúlveda, Alessandro Damiani, Juan M. Carrera, Jose Jorquera, Juan A. Alfonso, Rosalino Fuenzalida, Miguel Rivas, Shelley MacDonell, Gunther Seckmeyer, Chenghao Wang, Zutao Ouyang, Stef Lhermitte   +13 more
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A Fine-Scale Hotspot at the Edge: Epigean Arthropods from the Atacama Coast (Paposo-Taltal, Antofagasta Region, Chile)

Insects, 2021
The Atacama Desert at its margins harbors a unique biodiversity that is still very poorly known, especially in coastal fog oases spanning from Perú towards the Atacama coast.
Jaime Pizarro-Araya, Fermín M. Alfaro, Andrés A. Ojanguren-Affilastro, Andrés Moreira-Muñoz   +3 more
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Methyl-4-hydroxy-2-(2-hydroxypropan-2-yl)-6-methyl-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran-5-carboxylate

Molbank, 2023
Microorganisms are an important source of compounds that are pharmaceutically active, both as leads and as scaffolds for synthesis. Often, interesting chemistry is uncovered by exploring new biomes, of which the Chilean Atacama Desert is a prime example.
Rishi Vachaspathy Astakala, Gagan Preet, Rainer Ebel, Marcel Jaspars   +3 more
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Dark microbiome and extremely low organics in Atacama fossil delta unveil Mars life detection limits

Nature Communications, 2023
Unique microorganisms of a fossil river delta in the Atacama Desert unveil the current limits of life detection on Mars.
Armando Azua-Bustos, Alberto G. Fairén, Carlos González-Silva, Olga Prieto-Ballesteros, Daniel Carrizo, Laura Sánchez-García, Victor Parro, Miguel Ángel Fernández-Martínez, Cristina Escudero, Victoria Muñoz-Iglesias, Maite Fernández-Sampedro, Antonio Molina, Miriam García Villadangos, Mercedes Moreno-Paz, Jacek Wierzchos, Carmen Ascaso, Teresa Fornaro, John Robert Brucato, Giovanni Poggiali, Jose Antonio Manrique, Marco Veneranda, Guillermo López-Reyes, Aurelio Sanz-Arranz, Fernando Rull, Ann M. Ollila, Roger C. Wiens, Adriana Reyes-Newell, Samuel M. Clegg, Maëva Millan, Sarah Stewart Johnson, Ophélie McIntosh, Cyril Szopa, Caroline Freissinet, Yasuhito Sekine, Keisuke Fukushi, Koki Morida, Kosuke Inoue, Hiroshi Sakuma, Elizabeth Rampe   +38 more
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Mechanisms of flower coloring and eco-evolutionary implications of massive blooming events in the Atacama Desert

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on earth, holds a rich biodiversity that becomes most appreciable in years when unusual rainfall accumulation triggers a phenomenon of explosive development of ephemeral herbaceous and woody desert species ...
Jaime Martínez-Harms, Pablo C. Guerrero, Pablo C. Guerrero, Pablo C. Guerrero, María José Martínez-Harms, María José Martínez-Harms, Nicolás Poblete, Katalina González, Doekele G. Stavenga, Misha Vorobyev   +9 more
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The Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert, an Extremely Dry and Carbon Deprived Habitat of Potential Interest for the Field of Carbon Science

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
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 ...
Armando Azua-Bustos, Armando Azua-Bustos, Carlos González-Silva, Gino Corsini   +3 more
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