| Bacterial endospores and their significance in stress resistance WL Nicholson, P Fajardo-Cavazos, R Rebeil, TA Slieman, PJ Riesenman, ... Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 81, 27-32, 2002 | 125 | 2002 |
| Effect of chromosome location of Bacillus subtilis forespore genes on their spo gene dependence and transcription by E sigma F: identification of features of good E sigma F … D Sun, P Fajardo-Cavazos, MD Sussman, F Tovar-Rojo, ... Journal of bacteriology 173 (24), 7867-7874, 1991 | 120 | 1991 |
| Bacillus Endospores Isolated from Granite: Close Molecular Relationships to Globally Distributed Bacillus spp. from Endolithic and Extreme Environments P Fajardo-Cavazos, W Nicholson Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72 (4), 2856-2863, 2006 | 101 | 2006 |
| Molecular cloning and characterization of the Bacillus subtilis spore photoproduct lyase (spl) gene, which is involved in repair of UV radiation-induced DNA damage during spore … P Fajardo-Cavazos, C Salazar, WL Nicholson Journal of bacteriology 175 (6), 1735-1744, 1993 | 99 | 1993 |
| Bacillus subtilis spores on artificial meteorites survive hypervelocity atmospheric entry: implications for lithopanspermia P Fajardo-Cavazos, L Link, HJ Melosh, WL Nicholson Astrobiology 5 (6), 726-736, 2005 | 76 | 2005 |
| Slow degradation of ATP in simulated martian environments suggests long residence times for the biosignature molecule on spacecraft surfaces on Mars AC Schuerger, P Fajardo-Cavazos, CA Clausen, JE Moores, PH Smith, ... Icarus 194 (1), 86-100, 2008 | 70 | 2008 |
| Cultivation of Staphylococcus epidermidis in the human spaceflight environment leads to alterations in the frequency and spectrum of spontaneous rifampicin-resistance mutations … P Fajardo-Cavazos, WL Nicholson Frontiers in Microbiology 7, 204416, 2016 | 63 | 2016 |
| Exploring the Low-Pressure Growth Limit: Evolution of Bacillus subtilis in the Laboratory to Enhanced Growth at 5 Kilopascals WL Nicholson, P Fajardo-Cavazos, J Fedenko, JL Ortíz-Lugo, ... Applied and environmental microbiology 76 (22), 7559-7565, 2010 | 52 | 2010 |
| Testing interplanetary transfer of bacteria between Earth and Mars as a result of natural impact phenomena and human spaceflight activities P Fajardo-Cavazos, AC Schuerger, WL Nicholson Acta Astronautica 60 (4-7), 534-540, 2007 | 47 | 2007 |
| Bacterial spores in granite survive hypervelocity launch by spallation: Implications for lithopanspermia P Fajardo-Cavazos, F Langenhorst, HJ Melosh, WL Nicholson Astrobiology 9 (7), 647-657, 2009 | 45 | 2009 |
| Alterations in the Spectrum of Spontaneous Rifampicin-Resistance Mutations in the Bacillus subtilis rpoB Gene after Cultivation in the Human Spaceflight … P Fajardo-Cavazos, JD Leehan, WL Nicholson Frontiers in microbiology 9, 192, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| Essential Cysteine Residues in Bacillus subtilis Spore Photoproduct Lyase Identified by Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis P Fajardo-Cavazos, R Rebeil, WL Nicholson Current microbiology 51, 331-335, 2005 | 38 | 2005 |
| Comparison of Bacillus subtilis transcriptome profiles from two separate missions to the International Space Station MD Morrison, P Fajardo-Cavazos, WL Nicholson npj Microgravity 5 (1), 1, 2019 | 37 | 2019 |
| Evolution of Bacillus subtilis to Enhanced Growth at Low Pressure: Up-Regulated Transcription of des-desKR, Encoding the Fatty Acid Desaturase System P Fajardo-Cavazos, SM Waters, AC Schuerger, S George, JJ Marois, ... Astrobiology 12 (3), 258-270, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
| Persistence of biomarker ATP and ATP-generating capability in bacterial cells and spores contaminating spacecraft materials under earth conditions and in a simulated martian … P Fajardo-Cavazos, AC Schuerger, WL Nicholson Applied and environmental microbiology 74 (16), 5159-5167, 2008 | 30 | 2008 |
| DNA repair and the ultraviolet radiation resistance of bacterial spores: from the laboratory to the environment WL Nicholson, P Fajardo-Cavazos Recent Res. Dev. Microbiol 1, 125-140, 1997 | 30 | 1997 |
| Effect of promoter mutations and upstream deletions on the expression of genes coding for small, acid-soluble spore proteins of Bacillus subtilis P Fajardo-Cavazos, F Tovar-Rojo, P Setlow Journal of bacteriology 173 (6), 2011-2016, 1991 | 29 | 1991 |
| Levels of mRNAs which code for small, acid-soluble spore proteins and their LacZ gene fusions in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis JM Mason, P Fajardo-Cavazos, P Setlow Nucleic Acids Research 16 (14), 6567-6583, 1988 | 29 | 1988 |
| Exposure of DNA and Bacillus subtilis Spores to Simulated Martian Environments: Use of Quantitative PCR (qPCR) to Measure Inactivation Rates of DNA to … P Fajardo-Cavazos, AC Schuerger, WL Nicholson Astrobiology 10 (4), 403-411, 2010 | 28 | 2010 |
| Complete genome sequence of Serratia liquefaciens strain ATCC 27592 WL Nicholson, MT Leonard, P Fajardo-Cavazos, N Panayotova, ... Genome announcements 1 (4), 10.1128/genomea. 00548-13, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
