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Mary N. Parenteau
astro-ph.EPExobiologyExtraterrestrial EnvironmentMarsastro-ph.IMbiomarkergenome sequencelipidPlanetsPurple nonsulfur bacteria
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Exoplanet Biosignatures: Understanding Oxygen as a Biosignature in the Context of Its Environment
with Victoria S. Meadows, Christopher T. Reinhard, Giada N. Arney, Edward W. Schwieterman +11
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30 papers in the corpus · 1999–2026Signatures of Silicification in Lava Tubes: Implications for Biosignature Preservation and Detection on Earth and Mars.42671219 · Bower, Dina M, Millan, Maëva, Mussetta, Mathilde et al.2026 · 0 citationsAstrobiology. 2026;26(10):834-850
Is a constitutive red-shift an advantage for oxygenic photosynthesis under M dwarf starlight? Insights from Acaryochloris marina sp. str. Moss Beach.42583199 · Liistro, Elisabetta, Boccia, Beatrice, Parenteau, Mary Niki et al.2026 · 0 citationsFEMS microbes. 2026;7:xtag042
White Paper on Phototrophic Biosignatures: Research Priorities for the Search for Life on Other Worlds2607.03106v1 · Nancy Y. Kiang, Christopher Gisriel, Robert E. Blankenship et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Is constitutive red-shift an advantage for oxygenic photosynthesis under M-dwarf starlight? Insights from Acaryochloris marina sp. str. Moss Beach10.64898/2026.04.21.719884v1 · Liistro, E., Boccia, B., Parenteau, M. N. et al.2026 · 0 citationsbioRxiv
Lipid biomarkers reveal dominance of aerobic methanotrophy in a continental serpentinizing system.41867495 · Collins, Cybele R, Parenteau, Mary N, Jahnke, Linda L et al.2026 · 1 citationFrontiers in microbiology. 2025;16:1694997
Detecting alien living worlds and photosynthetic life using imaging polarimetry with the HWO coronagraph2507.03819v2 · Svetlana Berdyugina, Lucas Patty, Jonathan Grone et al.2025 · 1 citationarXiv
Genomic highlights of the phylogenetically unique halophilic purple nonsulfur bacterium, Rhodothalassium salexigens.39862325 · Madigan, Michael T, Bender, Kelly S, Parenteau, Mary N et al.2025 · 3 citationsExtremophiles : life under extreme conditions. 2025;29(1):12
Polarized Signatures of the Earth Through Time: An Outlook for the Habitable Worlds Observatory2410.02194v2 · Kenneth E. Goodis Gordon, Theodora Karalidi, Kimberly M. Bott et al.2024 · 6 citationsarXiv
Detectability Simulations of a NIR Surface Biosignature on Proxima Centauri b with Future Space Observatories2409.07289v1 · Connor O. Metz, Nancy Y. Kiang, Geronimo L. Villanueva et al.2024 · 0 citationsarXiv
Enabling Data Discovery with the Astrobiology Resource Metadata Standard.38393827 · Wolfe, Shawn R, Lafuente, Barbara, Keller, Richard M et al.2024 · 1 citationAstrobiology. 2024;24(2):131-137
Genomic basis for the unique phenotype of the alkaliphilic purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodobaca bogoriensis.37481751 · Madigan, Michael T, Bender, Kelly S, Sanguedolce, Sophia A et al.2023 · 2 citationsExtremophiles : life under extreme conditions. 2023;27(2):19
Alternative Methylated Biosignatures I: Methyl Bromide, A Capstone Biosignature2208.07393v2 · Michaela Leung, Edward W. Schwieterman, Mary N. Parenteau et al.2022 · 18 citationsApJ 938 6 (2022)
Absence of canonical trophic levels in a microbial mat.35831948 · Gonzalez-Nayeck, Ana C, Mohr, Wiebke, Tang, Tiantian et al.2022 · 4 citationsGeobiology. 2022;20(5):726-740
Genomic Features of the Bundle-Forming Heliobacterium Heliophilum fasciatum.35630314 · Bender, Kelly S, Madigan, Michael T, Williamson, Kyleigh L et al.2022 · 6 citationsMicroorganisms. 2022;10(5)
Discovery of Chlorophyll d: Isolation and Characterization of a Far-Red Cyanobacterium from the Original Site of Manning and Strain (1943) at Moss Beach, California.35456869 · Kiang, Nancy Y, Swingley, Wesley D, Gautam, Dikshyant et al.2022 · 9 citationsMicroorganisms. 2022;10(4)
Anaerobic 3-methylhopanoid production by an acidophilic photosynthetic purple bacterium.34528111 · Mayer, Marisa H, Parenteau, Mary N, Kempher, Megan L et al.2021 · 19 citationsArchives of microbiology. 2021;203(10):6041-6052
Claimed detection of PH in the clouds of Venus is consistent with mesospheric SO2101.09837v1 · Andrew P. Lincowski, Victoria S. Meadows, David Crisp et al.2021 · 57 citationsarXiv
High-Quality Genome-Scale Models From Error-Prone, Long-Read Assemblies.33281796 · Broddrick, Jared T, Szubin, Richard, Norsigian, Charles J et al.2020 · 3 citationsFrontiers in microbiology. 2020;11:596626
Constraints on the Metabolic Activity of Microorganisms in Atacama Surface Soils Inferred from Refractory Biomarkers: Implications for Martian Habitability and Biomarker Detection.30035640 · Wilhelm, Mary Beth, Davila, Alfonso F, Parenteau, Mary N et al.2019 · 25 citationsAstrobiology. 2018;18(7):955-966
Exoplanet Biosignatures: Understanding Oxygen as a Biosignature in the Context of Its Environment.29746149 · Meadows, Victoria S, Reinhard, Christopher T, Arney, Giada N et al.2019 · 319 citationsAstrobiology. 2018;18(6):630-662
Exoplanet Biosignatures: At the Dawn of a New Era of Planetary Observations.29741918 · Kiang, Nancy Y, Domagal-Goldman, Shawn, Parenteau, Mary N et al.2019 · 72 citationsAstrobiology. 2018;18(6):619-629
Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life1705.05791v3 · Edward W. Schwieterman, Nancy Y. Kiang, Mary N. Parenteau et al.2017 · 584 citationsSchwieterman et al. (2018). Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life. Astrobiology, 18(6), 663-708
Biosignature Preservation and Detection in Mars Analog Environments.28177270 · Hays, Lindsay E, Graham, Heather V, Des Marais, David J et al.2017 · 261 citationsAstrobiology. 2017;17(4):363-400
Xeropreservation of functionalized lipid biomarkers in hyperarid soils in the Atacama Desert.29743757 · Wilhelm, Mary Beth, Davila, Alfonso F, Eigenbrode, Jennifer L et al.2025 · 68 citationsOrganic geochemistry. 2017;103:97-104
Production and early preservation of lipid biomarkers in iron hot springs.24886100 · Parenteau, Mary N, Jahnke, Linda L, Farmer, Jack D et al.2015 · 56 citationsAstrobiology. 2014;14(6):502-21
Molecular and lipid biomarker analysis of a gypsum-hosted endoevaporitic microbial community.24325308 · Jahnke, L L, Turk-Kubo, K A, N Parenteau, M et al.2014 · 31 citationsGeobiology. 2014;12(1):62-82
Community structure and function of high-temperature chlorophototrophic microbial mats inhabiting diverse geothermal environments.23761787 · Klatt, Christian G, Inskeep, William P, Herrgard, Markus J et al.2013 · 99 citationsFrontiers in microbiology. 2013;4:106
The role of biofilms in the sedimentology of actively forming gypsum deposits at Guerrero Negro, Mexico.19968464 · Vogel, Marilyn B, Des Marais, David J, Turk, Kendra A et al.2010 · 34 citationsAstrobiology. 2009;9(9):875-93
Phototrophs in high iron microbial mats: microstructure of mats in iron-depositing hot springs.10858577 · Pierson, Parenteau2019 · 93 citationsFEMS microbiology ecology. 2000;32(3):181-196
Phototrophs in high-iron-concentration microbial mats: physiological ecology of phototrophs in an iron-depositing hot spring.10584006 · Pierson, B K, Parenteau, M N, Griffin, B M2000 · 86 citationsApplied and environmental microbiology. 1999;65(12):5474-83
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