Fungal impact on archaeological materials collected at Byers Peninsula Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

• Published in: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
• Main Authors: GRACIÉLE C.A. DE MENEZES, BÁRBARA A. PORTO, GERUSA A. RADICCHI, FERNANDA C. SOARES, ANDRÉS ZARANKIN, LUIZ H. ROSA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic heritage; degradation; fungi; taxonomy; Science; Q; Antarctic; The Antarctic; South Shetland Islands; Livingston Island; Byers; Byers peninsula; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202220210218; https://doaj.org/article/c02e77639c0e4aa09006915269c05e0a

Abstract We identified cultivable fungi present on the surface of five archaeological sealers’ artifacts from the beginning of the 19th century collected on Livingston Island, Antarctica. Twenty fungal isolates were recovered and identified using biology molecular methods as taxa of Antarctomyces, L...