Joost W. Aerts

Microbial Communities in Sediments From Four Mildly Acidic Ephemeral Salt Lakes in the Yilgarn Craton (Australia) – Terrestrial Analogs to Ancient Mars

Joost W. Aerts, Rob J. M. van Spanning, J. Flahaut et al. · Frontiers in Microbiology · 2019 · 160 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Microbiology +17

Methanotrophy by a Mycobacterium species that dominates a cave microbial ecosystem

Rob J. M. van Spanning, Qingtian Guan, Chrats Melkonian et al. · Nature Microbiology · 2022 · 67 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +14

The Significance of Microbe-Mineral-Biomarker Interactions in the Detection of Life on Mars and Beyond

Wilfred F. M. Röling, Joost W. Aerts, Lucas Patty et al. · Astrobiology · 2015 · 51 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geology +17

Biosignature Analysis of Mars Soil Analogs from the Atacama Desert: Challenges and Implications for Future Missions to Mars

Joost W. Aerts, Andreas Riedo, Daniel J. Melton et al. · Astrobiology · 2020 · 27 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, Microbiology +15

Sulfur Cave (Romania), an extreme environment with microbial mats in a CO2-H2S/O2 gas chemocline dominated by mycobacteria

Serban M. Sarbu, Joost W. Aerts, Jean‐François Flot et al. · International Journal of Speleology · 2018 · 18 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Geology, Microbiology +15