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Lynn Rothschild
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NASA Ames Research Center
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(650) 604-6525
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First Author Publications:
- Rothschild, L. (2010), A powerful toolkit for synthetic biology: over 3.8 billion years of evolution, BioEssays, 32, 304-313.
- Rothschild, L. (2009), Life battered but unbowed, Nature, 459, 335-6.
- Rothschild, L., et al. (2005), The search for interplanetary pioneers: An unusual hypersaline community from Bolivia, Astrobiology, 5, 265.
- Rothschild, L. (2004), Protozoologist (Protistology) at the dawn of the 21st Century, J. Eukaryotic Microbiol., 51, 3-7.
- Rothschild, L. (2002), Life in Extreme Environments, 32-40.
- Rothschild, L., and R. L. Mancinelli (2001), Life in extreme environments, Nature (London), 409, 1092-1101.
- Rothschild, L., and R. L. Mancinelli (1995), Field analyses of carbon, nitrogen and DNA metabolism in algal mats, J. Phycol., 31(suppl), 16.
- Rothschild, L., and Nature (1994), CO2 and Diatom Mats, 817 (manuscript in preparation).
- Rothschild, L. (1994), Elevated CO2: Impact on Diurnal Patterns of Photosynthesis in Natural Microbial Ecosystems, Advanced Space Research, 14.11, 285-289.
- Rothschild, L., et al. (1994), Metabolic Activity of Microorganisms in Evaporites, Journal of Phycology, 30.3, 431-438.
- Rothschild, L. (1993), A 'Cryptic' Microbial Mat: A New Model Ecosystem for Extant Life on Mars, Advanced Space Research. In press.
- Rothschild, L., and L. J. Giver (1992), Diurnal Patterns of Carbon Fixation and DNA Synthesis in a Cyanidium Caldarium Mat Community, Journal of Protozoology. In press.
- Rothschild, L. (1991), A Model for Diurnal Patterns of Carbon Fixation in a Precambrian Microbial Mat Based on a Modern Analog, Bio Systems, 25, 13-23.
- Rothschild, L. (1990), Earth Analogs for Martian Life. Microbes in Evaporites, A New Model System for Life on Mars, Icarus, 88, 246-260.
- Rothschild, L., and R. L. Mancinelli (1990), A Model for the Evolution of Carbon Fixation in Microbial Mats, 3500 Million Years to the Present, Nature, 345, 710-712.
Co-Authored Publications:
- Fujishima, K., et al. (2015), An overhang-based DNA block shuffling method for creating a customized random library, Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 5, 9740, doi:10.1038/srep09740.
- Hegde, S., et al. (2015), Surface biosignatures of exo-Earths: Remote detection of extraterrestrial life, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 112, 3886-3891.
- Cumbers, J., and L. Rothschild (2014), Salt tolerance and polyphyly in the cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis (Pleurocapsales), J. of Phycology, 50, 472-482, doi:10.1111/jpy.12169.
- Capece, M., et al. (2013), Polyextremophiles and the constraints for terrestrial habitability, Polyextremophiles, Microorganisms and macroorganisms living under multiple forms of stress, ed. J. Seckback. Springer (submitted).
- Horikawa, D. D., et al. (2012), Tolerance of Anhydrobiotic Eggs of the Tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus to Extreme Environments, Astrobiology, 12, 283-289.
- Paulitsch-Fuchs, A. H., et al. (2012), Prokaryotic transport in electrohydrodynamic structures, Physical Biology, 9, 11, doi:10.1088/1478-3975/9/2/026006.
- Leuko, S., et al. (2011), Molecular Assessment of UVC Radiation-Induced DNA Damage Repair in the Stromatolitic Halophilic Archaeon, Halococcus hamelinensis, Photochem. Photobiol., 102, 140-145.
- Leuko, S., L. Rothschild, and B. P. Burns (2010), Halophilic Archaea and the Search for Extinct and Extant Life on Mars, J. Cosomology, 5, 940-50.
- Balk, M., et al. (2009), Oxidation of water to hydrogen peroxide at the rock-water interface due to stress-activated electric currents in rocks Earth Planet, Earth and Planetary Letters, 283, 87-92.
- Moulton, K. D., et al. (2009), Bacteriophage morphotypes isolated from a unique coastal mining site, Microsc Microanal 15(Suppl, 2), 956-7., doi:10.1017/S1431927609096494.
- D'Antoni, H., et al. (2007), Extreme environments in the forests of Ushuaia, Argentina. Geo. Res. Lett., 34, L22704, doi:10.1029/2007GL031096.
- Mok, E. H., et al. (2001), Maintenance of the DNA puff expanded state is independent of active replication and transcription, Chromosoma, 110, 186-196.
- Mok, E. H., et al. (2001), Maintenance of the DNA puff expanded state is independent of active replication and transcription, Chromosoma, 110, 186-196.
- Williams, S. D., and L. Rothschild (1997), The effects of natural levels of solar ultraviolet radiation on RNA synthesis, Mol. Biol. Cell. 8 (suppl) (, 1997), 146a.