Microcolonial Fungi on Rocks: A Life in Constant Drought?

• Published in: Mycopathologia
• Main Authors: Zakharova, Kristina, Tesei, Donatella, Marzban, Gorji, Dijksterhuis, Jan, Wyatt, Timon, Sterflinger, Katja
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2012
• Subjects: Article; Bare Rock; Antarc*; antarcticus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3669513; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23073825; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-012-9592-1

Black microcolonial fungi (MCF) and black yeasts are among the most stress-resistant eukaryotic organisms known on Earth. They mainly inhabit bare rock surfaces in hot and cold deserts of all regions of the Earth, but some of them have a close phylogenetic relation to human pathogenic black fungi wh...