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List of works by Ricardo Amils

A Laboratory of Extremophiles: Iceland Coordination Action for Research Activities on Life in Extreme Environments (CAREX) Field Campaign

scientific article published on 25 February 2013

A Novel Cellular Autoaggregative Developmentally CRP Regulated Behaviour Generates Massively Chondrule-Like Formations over Surface of Old <i>Escherichia coli</i> K-12 Macrocolony Biofilms

scientific article published in 2014

A mineralogical archive of the biogeochemical sulfur cycle preserved in the subsurface of the Río Tinto system

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 103 no. 3, March 2018

A molecular approach to the characterization of the eukaryotic communities of an extreme acidic environment: methods for DNA extraction and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis

scientific article published on 3 February 2006

Acidophiles and Astrobiology

Active microbial biofilms in deep poor porous continental subsurface rocks

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Adaptation of granular sludge microbial communities to nitrate, sulfide, and/or p-cresol removal

scientific article published on 14 December 2018

An Improved Semiquantitative Method for Elemental Analysis of Plants Using Inductive Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry ⬇️

scientific article published on July 22, 2011

An oligonucleotide prokaryotic acidophile microarray: its validation and its use to monitor seasonal variations in extreme acidic environments with total environmental RNA.

scientific article

Anaerobic degradation of linear alkylbenzene sulfonates in coastal marine sediments

scientific article published in May 2007

Analysis of microbial community during biofilm development in an anaerobic wastewater treatment reactor

scientific article

Assessment of the addition of Thiobacillus denitrificans and Thiomicrospira denitrificans to chemolithoautotrophic denitrifying bioreactors.

scientific article published in September 2008

Association between catastrophic paleovegetation changes during Devonian–Carboniferous boundary and the formation of giant massive sulfide deposits

Astrobiology through the ages of Mars: the study of terrestrial analogues to understand the habitability of Mars.

scientific article published on October 2010

Author Correction: Ultra-small microorganisms in the polyextreme conditions of the Dallol volcano, Northern Afar, Ethiopia

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Beyond Chloride Brines: Variable Metabolomic Responses in the Anaerobic Organism Yersinia intermedia MASE-LG-1 to NaCl and MgSO4 at Identical Water Activity

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Biogeochemistry of a Hyperacidic and Ultraconcentrated Pyrite Leachate in San Telmo mine (Iberian Pyrite Belt, Spain)

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Carbonate precipitation under bulk acidic conditions as a potential biosignature for searching life on Mars

Comparative microbial ecology of the water column of an extreme acidic pit lake, Nuestra Señora del Carmen, and the Río Tinto basin (Iberian Pyrite Belt).

scientific article

Comparative microbial ecology study of the sediments and the water column of the Río Tinto, an extreme acidic environment ⬇️

scientific article published on March 20, 2012

Complete Genome Sequence of Tessaracoccus sp. Strain T2.5-30 Isolated from 139.5 Meters Deep on the Subsurface of the Iberian Pyritic Belt

scientific article published on 27 April 2017

Composition, speciation and distribution of iron minerals in Imperata cylindrica

scientific article published on 19 March 2007

Contrasting microbial community assembly hypotheses: a reconciling tale from the Río Tinto

scientific article

Crowning: a novel Escherichia coli colonizing behaviour generating a self-organized corona

scientific article

Dalangtan Playa (Qaidam Basin, NW China): Its microbial life and physicochemical characteristics and their astrobiological implications

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Detection of peptidic sequences in the ancient acidic sediments of Río Tinto, Spain

scientific article published on 03 December 2011

Development and structure of eukaryotic biofilms in an extreme acidic environment, rio tinto (SW, Spain).

scientific article

Distribution and seasonal variability in the benthic eukaryotic community of Río Tinto (SW, Spain), an acidic, high metal extreme environment

scientific article published on 17 July 2007

Do microbes control the formation of giant copper deposits?

scholarly article

Draft genome sequence of the electricigen Acidiphilium sp. strain PM (DSM 24941).

scientific article published on October 2011

Electricity generation by microorganisms in the sediment-water interface of an extreme acidic microcosm.

scientific article

Electrochemical growth of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans on a graphite electrode for obtaining a biocathode for direct electrocatalytic reduction of oxygen

scientific article published on 17 July 2010

Enrichment and isolation of acidophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria from Tinto River sediments.

scientific article published on 6 May 2013

Eukaryotic community distribution and its relationship to water physicochemical parameters in an extreme acidic environment, Rio Tinto (southwestern Spain)

scientific article

Eukaryotic microbial diversity of phototrophic microbial mats in two Icelandic geothermalhot springs.

scientific article

Evidence for Amazonian acidic liquid water on Mars—A reinterpretation of MER mission results

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Extracellular matrix assembly in extreme acidic eukaryotic biofilms and their possible implications in heavy metal adsorption

scientific article published on 13 May 2008

Extraction of extracellular polymeric substances from extreme acidic microbial biofilms.

scientific article published on 11 March 2008

Extreme environments as Mars terrestrial analogs: The Rio Tinto case

scholarly article by Ricardo Amils et al published February 2007 in Planetary and Space Science

Finding mineralogically interesting targets for exploration from spatially coarse visible and near IR spectra

Fluvial Bedform Generation by Biofilm Activity in the Berrocal Segment of Río Tinto: Acidic Biofilms and Sedimentation

Formation of iron-rich shelled structures by microbial communities

scientific article

Fossilization of Acidophilic Microorganisms

Fungal Iron Biomineralization in Río Tinto

Fungal jarosite biomineralization in Río Tinto

scientific article published in November 2014

Genome Sequence of the Acidophilic Bacterium Acidocella sp. Strain MX-AZ02.

scientific article published on 15 January 2013

Geobiology of a lower Cambrian carbonate platform, Pedroche Formation, Ossa Morena Zone, Spain

article

Geomicrobiology of La Zarza-Perrunal acid mine effluent (Iberian Pyritic Belt, Spain).

scientific article published on 25 February 2011

How big breweries failed the taste test

scientific article published in Nature

Iberian Pyrite Belt Subsurface Life (IPBSL), a Drilling Project of Biohydrometallurgical Interest

article

Identification of the subsurface sulfide bodies responsible for acidity in Río Tinto source water, Spain

article

Immunocytochemical analysis of the subcellular distribution of ferritin in Imperata cylindrica (L.) Raeuschel, an iron hyperaccumulator plant ⬇️

scientific article published on July 20, 2011

Impact of Simulated Martian Conditions on (Facultatively) Anaerobic Bacterial Strains from Different Mars Analogue Sites

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Inhibition of carbonate synthesis in acidic oceans on early Mars

scientific article

Interglacial clathrate destabilization on Mars: Possible contributing source of its atmospheric methane

scholarly article by Olga Prieto-Ballesteros et al published 2006 in Geology

Iron meteorites can support the growth of acidophilic chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Lack of correlation of desiccation and radiation tolerance in microorganisms from diverse extreme environments tested under anoxic conditions.

scientific article published in March 2018

Lessons learned from thirty years of geomicrobiological studies of Río Tinto

scientific article

Life and applications of extremophiles.

scientific article published in August 2011

Localization of nickel in tissues of Streptanthus polygaloides Gray (Cruciferae) and endemic nickel hyperaccumulators from California

scientific article published on 10 December 2013

Metal accumulation screening of the Río Tinto flora (Huelva, Spain)

scientific article published on 08 August 2009

Methanogenesis in the sediments of Rio Tinto, an extreme acidic river ⬇️

scientific article published on May 23, 2011

Microbial Diversity and Its Relationship to Physicochemical Characteristics of the Water in Two Extreme Acidic Pit Lakes from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain)

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Microbial Metabolism of Amino Acids—Biologically Induced Removal of Glycine and the Resulting Fingerprint as a Potential Biosignature

scientific article published on 4 April 2022

Microbial community composition of Tirez lagoon (Spain), a highly sulfated athalassohaline environment

scientific article

Microbial community composition of anoxic marine sediments in the Bay of Cádiz (Spain)

scientific article published on September 1, 2011

Microbial community dynamics in a chemolithotrophic denitrification reactor inoculated with methanogenic granular sludge

scientific article

Microbial community structure across the tree of life in the extreme Río Tinto

scientific article

Microbial diversity associated with the anaerobic sediments of a soda lake (Mono Lake, California, USA).

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Microbial diversity in anaerobic sediments at Rio Tinto, a naturally acidic environment with a high heavy metal content.

scientific article

Microbial mediated formation of Fe-carbonate minerals under extreme acidic conditions

scientific article (publication date: 23 April 2014)

Microbiology: eukaryotic diversity in Spain's River of Fire.

scientific article published in May 2002

Molecular characterization and in situ quantification of anoxic arsenite-oxidizing denitrifying enrichment cultures

scientific article

Nickel-resistance determinants in Acidiphilium sp. PM identified by genome-wide functional screening

scientific article

Noachian and more recent phyllosilicates in impact craters on Mars.

scientific article

Nucleation of Fe-rich phosphates and carbonates on microbial cells and exopolymeric substances

scientific article

Orbital evidence for clay and acidic sulfate assemblages on Mars based on mineralogical analogs from Rio Tinto, Spain

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Phenotypic properties and microbial diversity of methanogenic granules from a full-scale upflow anaerobic sludge bed reactor treating brewery wastewater

scientific article

Photocatalytic elimination of indoor air biological and chemical pollution in realistic conditions

scientific article published on 19 February 2012

Photosynthetic performance of phototrophic biofilms in extreme acidic environments

scientific article published on 23 May 2011

Physicochemical characterization of Acidiphilium sp. biofilms

scientific article published in March 2013

Preferential use of an anode as an electron acceptor by an acidophilic bacterium in the presence of oxygen.

scientific article published on 16 May 2008

Preservation Windows for Paleobiological Traces in the Mars Geological Record

Prime candidate sites for astrobiological exploration through the hydrogeological history of Mars

Productivity Contribution of Paleozoic Woodlands to the Formation of Shale-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Tharsis, Spain)

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Prokaryotic community structure in algal photosynthetic biofilms from extreme acidic streams in Río Tinto (Huelva, Spain).

scientific article

Prokaryotic diversity and community composition in the Salar de Uyuni, a large scale, chaotropic salt flat

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Proteomic analysis of the response of an acidophilic strain of Chlamydomonas sp. (Chlorophyta) to natural metal-rich water.

scientific article

Purification and biological characterization of halocin H1 from Haloferax mediterranei M2a

scientific article (publication date: March 2002)

Quantification of Tinto River sediment microbial communities: importance of sulfate-reducing bacteria and their role in attenuating acid mine drainage

scientific article

Reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of Thiomonas cuprina

scientific article

Reconstructing evolutionary relationships from functional data: a consistent classification of organisms based on translation inhibition response.

scientific article

Reply to the Comment on “Identification of the subsurface sulfide bodies responsible for acidity in Río Tinto source water, Spain” (Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 391 (2014) 36–41)

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Role of biogenic Fe(III) minerals as a sink and carrier of heavy metals in the Rio Tinto, Spain

scientific article published on 22 February 2020

Río tinto: a geochemical and mineralogical terrestrial analogue of Mars

scientific article

Screening of anaerobic activities in sediments of an acidic environment: Tinto River.

scientific article

Solar Radiation Stress in Natural Acidophilic Biofilms of Euglena mutabilis Revealed by Metatranscriptomics and PAM Fluorometry

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Some ecological mechanisms to generate habitability in planetary subsurface areas by chemolithotrophic communities: the Río Tinto subsurface ecosystem as a model system

scientific article published on February 2008

Spatial heterogeneity of bacterial populations in monomictic Lake Estanya (Huesca, Spain).

scientific article

Stability against freezing of aqueous solutions on early Mars

scientific article

Streptanthus purpureus sp. nova (Cruciferae), an endemic nickel hyperaccumulator from Sierra Nevada (California, USA)

scientific article

Study of methanogenic enrichment cultures of rock cores from the deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyritic Belt.

scientific article

Subsurface Geomicrobiology of the Iberian Pyritic Belt

Surface geochemistry of soils associated to the Tinto River (Huelva, Spain)

scientific article published on 26 March 2007

Taxonomic and functional analyses of intact microbial communities thriving in extreme, astrobiology-relevant, anoxic sites

scientific article published on 18 February 2021

Technological challenges to understanding the microbial ecology of deep subsurface ecosystems

scientific article published in February 2015

Tessaracoccus lapidicaptus sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from the deep subsurface of the Iberian pyrite belt

scientific article

Testing the limits of biological tolerance to arsenic in a fungus isolated from the River Tinto.

scientific article published in February 2003

The Case of the Lacking Carbonates and the Emergence of Early Life on Mars

The Extreme Conditions of Life on the Planet and Exobiology

The HiPIP from the acidophilic Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is correctly processed and translocated in Escherichia coli, in spite of the periplasm pH difference between these two micro-organisms

scientific article

The Molecular Record of Metabolic Activity in the Subsurface of the Río Tinto Mars Analog

scientific article published in November 2021

The Río Tinto Basin, Spain: Mineralogy, sedimentary geobiology, and implications for interpretation of outcrop rocks at Meridiani Planum, Mars

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The Sulfate-Rich and Extreme Saline Sediment of the Ephemeral Tirez Lagoon: A Biotope for Acetoclastic Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria and Hydrogenotrophic Methanogenic Archaea ⬇️

scientific article published on September 11, 2011

The Tinto River, an Extreme Gaian Environment

The deep continental subsurface: the dark biosphere

scientific article published on 30 May 2018

The limitations on organic detection in Mars-like soils by thermal volatilization-gas chromatography-MS and their implications for the Viking results

scientific article

The responses of an anaerobic microorganism, Yersinia intermedia MASE-LG-1 to individual and combined simulated Martian stresses

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Thermal diapirism and the habitability of the icy shell of Europa.

scientific article published on 15 March 2007

Tolerance to cadmium in Chlamydomonas sp. (Chlorophyta) strains isolated from an extreme acidic environment, the Tinto River (SW, Spain)

scientific article published on 12 October 2005

Transposase interaction with the β sliding clamp: effects on insertion sequence proliferation and transposition rate

scientific article

Tírez lake as a terrestrial analog of Europa

scientific article published on January 2003

Ultra-small microorganisms in the polyextreme conditions of the Dallol volcano, Northern Afar, Ethiopia.

scientific article

Underground habitats in the Río Tinto basin: a model for subsurface life habitats on Mars

scientific article published on October 2008

Viable cyanobacteria in the deep continental subsurface

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Visualizing Microorganism-Mineral Interaction in the Iberian Pyrite Belt Subsurface: The <i>Acidovorax</i> Case

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

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