Microcolonial Fungi on Rocks: A Life in Constant Drought?
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...
Published in: | Mycopathologia |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2012
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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 |