Physiological characteristics of fungi associated with antarctic environments

• Main Author: Kudalkar, Priyanka Sushil
• Other Authors: Chairperson, Graduate Committee: John C. Priscu
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture 2016
• Subjects: Fungi; Bioactive compounds; Antarctic; Bonney; McMurdo Dry Valleys; West Antarctica; Whillans; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/9835

The permanent ice covers on the lakes of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys region harbor a diverse group of phototrophic and heterotrophic microorganisms that metabolize during the short summer months when solar radiation produces melt inclusions within the ice and provides energy to drive photo...