Molina V, LG Belmar, HA Levipan, S Ramirez, C Anguita, A Galán, I Montes, O Ulloa 2020 Spatiotemporal distribution of key marine microbes in a seasonal oxygen-deficient coastal Upwelling System of the Eastern South Pacific Ocean, Front. Mar. Sci. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.561597
Cornejo-D’Ottone, M, V Molina, J Pavez, N Silva 2020 Greenhouse gas cycling by the plastisphere: The sleeper issue of plastic pollution, Chemosphere, 125709, ISSN 0045-6535, DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125709.
Fernández, C, Rain‐Franco, A, Rojas, C, Molina, V. 2019 Ammonium release via dissolution and biological mineralization of food pellets used in salmon farming. Aquac Res. 00: 1– 15. DOI:10.1111/are.14428
Murillo, AA, Molina V, Salcedo-Castro J, Harrod C 2019. Editorial: Marine Microbiome and Biogeochemical Cycles in Marine Productive Areas Frontiers in Marine Science 6:657. DOI:10.3389/fmars.2019.00657
Levipan, HA, Tapia-Cammas, D, Molina, V, Irgang, R, Toranzo, AE, Magariños, B, & Avendaño-Herrera, R. 2019. Biofilm development and cell viability: An undervalued mechanism in the persistence of the fish pathogen Tenacibaculum maritimum. Aquaculture. 511: 734267. DOI:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2019.734267
Yepsen, D.V, HA Levipan, V Molina 2019. Nitrospina bacteria in a rocky intertidal habitat (Quintay Bay, central Chile). MicrobiologyOpen 8 (3): 2045-8827 DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.646.
Valdes, V., F. Carlotti, R. Escribano, K. Donoso, M. Pagano, V. Molina, C. Fernández 2018. Nitrogen and phosphorus recycling mediated by copepods and response of bacterioplankton community from three contrasting areas in the western tropical South Pacific (20º S). Biogeoscience 15, 6019-6032. DOI:10.5194/bg-15-6019-2018
Valdes, V, C Fernandez, V Molina, R Escribano, F Joux, 2017. Dissolved compounds excreted by copepods reshape the active marine bacterioplankton community composition. Frontiers in Marine Science, section Marine Biogeochemistry. DOI:10.3389/fmars.2017.00343
Valdes, V, C Fernández, V Molina, R Escribano. 2017. Nitrogen excretion by copepods and its effect on ammonia-oxidizing communities from a coastal upwelling zone. Limnology and Oceanography. 1939-5590. DOI:10.1002/lno.10629
Levipan, H, V. Molina, C. Anguita, A Rain-Franco, L Belmar, C Fernandez. 2016. Variability of nitrifying communities in surface coastal waters of the Eastern South Pacific (36º S) Environmental Microbiology Reports 8 (5), 851-864. DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12448
Fernandez, C, ML González, C Muñoz, V Molina, L Farias. 2015. Temporal and spatial variability of biological nitrogen fixation off the upwelling system of central Chile (35–38.58S). Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. DOI:10.1002/2014JC010410
Elizondo-Patrone, C Hernández, B Yanicelli, L Olsen, V Molina 2015. The response of nitrifying microbial assemblages to ammonium (NH4+) enrichment from salmon farm activities in a Northern Chilean Fjord. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2015.03.021
Beier S, MJ Gálvez, V Molina, G Sarthou, F Quéroué, S Blain , Ingrid Obernosterer 2015. The transcriptional regulation of the glyoxylate cycle in SAR11 in response to iron fertilization in the Southern Ocean. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 7 (3): 427–434. DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12267
Castro-González M, V Molina, E Rodríguez-Rubio, O Ulloa 2014. The first report of a microdiverse anammox bacteria community in waters of Colombian Pacific, a transition area between prominent oxygen minimum zones of the eastern tropical Pacific. Environmental Microbiology Reports DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12165
Levipan HA, V Molina, C Fernandez. 2014. Nitrospina–like bacteria are the main drivers of nitrite oxidation in the seasonal upwelling area of the Eastern South Pacific (central Chile ~36° S). Environmental Microbiology Reports DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12158
Molina V, CE Morales, L Farías, M Cornejo, M Graco, Y Eissler, LA Cuevas. 2012. Contribution of planktonic components to nitrogen regeneration in the coastal area off central-southern Chile during non-upwelling conditions. Special Issue Progress in Oceanography. 92–95: 43–49. DOI:10.1016/j.pocean.2011.07.006
Galán A, V Molina, L Belmar, O Ulloa. 2012. Seasonal variability of planktonic anammox bacteria in the coastal upwelling ecosystem off central Chile (~36º S). Special Issue. Progress in Oceanography. Special Issue Progress in Oceanography. 92–95: 110-120. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.07.007
Belmar L, V Molina, O Ulloa. 2011. Abundance and phylogenetic identity of archaeoplankton in the permanent oxygen minimum zone of the eastern tropical South Pacific. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 78: 314 – 326. DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01159.x
Molina V, L Belmar, O Ulloa. 2010 High diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in permanent and seasonal oxygen-deficient waters of the eastern South Pacific. Environmental Microbiology, 12(9), 2450–2465. DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02218.x
Junier P, V Molina, C Dorador, O Hadas, O-S Kim, T Junier, K-P Witzel, J Imhoff. 2010. Phylogenetic and functional markers to study ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms (AOM) in the environment. Minireview. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 85:425-440. DOI: 10.1007/s00253-009-2228-9 Molina V, L Farías. 2009. Aerobic NH4+ oxidation in the oxycline and oxygen minimum zone of the eastern tropical South Pacific off northern Chile (~20°S). Deep – Sea Research II, 56: 1009-1018. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.09.006
Galán A, O Ulloa, V Molina, B Thamdrup, D Woebken, G Lavik, MMM Kuypers. 2009. Anammox bacteria and the anaerobic oxidation of ammonium in the oxygen minimum zone off northern Chile. Deep – Sea Research II, 56: 1125-1135. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.09.016
Junier P, O-S Kim, V Molina, P Limburg, T Junier, J.F. Imhoff, K-P Witzel. 2008. Comparative in silico analysis of PCR primers suited for diagnostics and cloning of ammonia monooxygenase genes from ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 64:141-152. DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00437.x. Epub 2008 Feb 1.
Molina V, O Ulloa, L Farías, H Urrutia, S Ramírez, P Junier, K-P Witzel. 2007. Ammonia-oxidizing b-Proteobacteria from the oxygen minimum zone off northern Chile. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70:3547-3555. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02275-06
Molina V, L Farías, Y Eissler, LA Cuevas, CE Morales, R Escribano 2005. Ammonium cycling under a strong oxygen gradient associated with the Oxygen Minimum Zone off northern Chile (~23º S). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 288: 35-43. DOI:10.3354/meps288035.
Molina V, L Farías, M Graco, C Rivera, L Pinto, VA Gallardo 2004. Benthic nitrogen regeneration under oxygen and organic matter spatial variability off Concepción (~36º S), central Chile. Deep – Sea Research II, 51: 2507-2522. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr2.2004.08.014
Graco M, L Farías, V Molina, D Gutiérrez, LP Nielsen 2001. Massive developments of microbial mats following phytoplankton blooms in a naturally euthrophic bay: implications for nitrogen cycling. Limnology and Oceanography 46: 821 – 832. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2001.46.4.0821