| PCR primers to amplify 16S rRNA genes from cyanobacteria U Nübel, F Garcia-Pichel, G Muyzer Applied and environmental microbiology 63 (8), 3327-3332, 1997 | 1961 | 1997 |
| CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SCYTONEMIN, A CYANOBACTERIAL SHEATH PIGMENT1 F Garcia‐Pichel, RW Castenholz Journal of Phycology 27 (3), 395-409, 1991 | 924 | 1991 |
| Occurrence of UV-absorbing, mycosporine-like compounds among cyanobacterial isolates and an estimate of their screening capacity F Garcia-Pichel, RW Castenholz Applied and Environmental Microbiology 59 (1), 163-169, 1993 | 603 | 1993 |
| The structure of scytonemin, an ultraviolet sunscreen pigment from the sheaths of cyanobacteria PJ Proteau, WH Gerwick, F Garcia-Pichel, R Castenholz Experientia 49 (9), 825-829, 1993 | 537 | 1993 |
| Microbial ultraviolet sunscreens Q Gao, F Garcia-Pichel Nature Reviews Microbiology 9 (11), 791-802, 2011 | 536 | 2011 |
| Phylogenetic and morphological diversity of cyanobacteria in soil desert crusts from the Colorado Plateau F Garcia-Pichel, A López-Cortés, U Nubel Applied and environmental microbiology 67 (4), 1902-1910, 2001 | 490 | 2001 |
| A model for internal self‐shading in planktonic organisms and its implications for the usefulness of ultraviolet sunscreens F Garcia‐Pichel Limnology and Oceanography 39 (7), 1704-1717, 1994 | 437 | 1994 |
| Evidence for an ultraviolet sunscreen role of the extracellular pigment scytonemin in the terrestrial cyanobacterium Chiorogloeopsis sp. F Garcia‐Pichel, ND Sherry, RW Castenholz Photochemistry and photobiology 56 (1), 17-23, 1992 | 429 | 1992 |
| Cyanobacterial responses to UV radiation RW Castenholz, F Garcia-Pichel Ecology of cyanobacteria II: Their diversity in space and time, 481-499, 2012 | 425 | 2012 |
| MICROENVIRONMENTS AND MICROSCALE PRODUCTIVITY OF CYANOBACTERIAL DESERT CRUSTS1 F Garcia‐Pichel, J Belnap Journal of phycology 32 (5), 774-782, 1996 | 415 | 1996 |
| Evidence Regarding the UV Sunscreen Role of a Mycosporine-Like Compound in the Cyanobacterium Gloeocapsa sp F Garcia-Pichel, CE Wingard, RW Castenholz Applied and Environmental Microbiology 59 (1), 170-176, 1993 | 401 | 1993 |
| Microbial diversity of a heavily polluted microbial mat and its community changes following degradation of petroleum compounds RMM Abed, NMD Safi, J Köster, D De Beer, Y El-Nahhal, J Rullkötter, ... Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68 (4), 1674-1683, 2002 | 361 | 2002 |
| Temperature drives the continental-scale distribution of key microbes in topsoil communities F Garcia-Pichel, V Loza, Y Marusenko, P Mateo, RM Potrafka Science 340 (6140), 1574-1577, 2013 | 356 | 2013 |
| Quantifying microbial diversity: morphotypes, 16S rRNA genes, and carotenoids of oxygenic phototrophs in microbial mats U Nübel, F Garcia-Pichel, M Kühl, G Muyzer Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65 (2), 422-430, 1999 | 353 | 1999 |
| Soil biogeochemical processes within the critical zone J Chorover, R Kretzschmar, F Garcia-Pichel, DL Sparks Elements 3 (5), 321-326, 2007 | 336 | 2007 |
| The phylogeny of unicellular, extremely halotolerant cyanobacteria F Garcia-Pichel, U Nübel, G Muyzer Archives of Microbiology 169 (6), 469-482, 1998 | 315 | 1998 |
| Dynamic cyanobacterial response to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust L Rajeev, UN Da Rocha, N Klitgord, EG Luning, J Fortney, SD Axen, ... The ISME journal 7 (11), 2178-2191, 2013 | 289 | 2013 |
| The prokaryotic diversity of biological soil crusts in the Sonoran Desert (Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ) ML Nagy, A Pérez, F Garcia-Pichel FEMS Microbiology Ecology 54 (2), 233-245, 2005 | 278 | 2005 |
| Cyanobacteria track water in desert soils F Garcia-Pichel, O Pringault Nature 413 (6854), 380-381, 2001 | 276 | 2001 |
| Estimates of global cyanobacterial biomass and its distribution F Garcia-Pichel, J Belnap, S Neuer, F Schanz Algological Studies 109 (1), 213-227, 2003 | 273 | 2003 |
