Understanding fungi in glacial and hypersaline environments

C Gostinčar, N Gunde-Cimerman - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Hypersaline waters and glacial ice are inhospitable environments that have low water
activity and high concentrations of osmolytes. They are inhabited by diverse microbial …

Culturable mycobiota from Karst caves in China II, with descriptions of 33 new species

ZF Zhang, SY Zhou, L Eurwilaichitr, S Ingsriswang… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
Karst caves are characterized by darkness, low temperature, high humidity, and oligotrophic
organisms due to its relatively closed and strongly zonal environments. Up to now, 1626 …

Resurrection of inactive microbes and resistome present in the natural frozen world: Reality or myth?

W Sajjad, M Rafiq, G Din, F Hasan, A Iqbal… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present world faces a new threat of ancient microbes and resistomes that are locked in
the cryosphere and now releasing upon thawing due to climate change and anthropogenic …

First report on antibiotic resistance and antimicrobial activity of bacterial isolates from 13,000-year old cave ice core

VI Paun, P Lavin, MC Chifiriuc, C Purcarea - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the unique physiology and metabolic pathways of microbiomes from cold
environments providing key evolutionary insights and promising leads for discovering new …

Eight novel cave fungi in Thailand's Satun Geopark

S Preedanon, S Suetrong, C Srihom… - Fungal Systematics …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
Karst caves are unique oligotrophic ecosystems characterised by the scarcity of organic
litter, darkness, low to moderate temperatures, and high humidity, supporting diverse fungal …

Unravelling the hidden diversity of cave mycobiota in Thailand's Satun Geopark

S Suetrong, S Preedanon, N Kobmoo, C Srihom… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Karst caves are distinctive ecosystems that have limited nutrients, darkness, low to moderate
temperatures, and high moisture levels, which allow for a diverse range of fungal …

Niche and ecosystem preference of earliest diverging fungi in soils

J Yang, J Yun, X Liu, W Du, M Xiang - Mycology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Within the supergroup Rotosphaeromycetes, or “Holomycota”/“Nucletmycea”, there are
several well-recognised unicellular clades in the earliest diverging fungi (EDF). However …

Bacterial and archaeal community structures in perennial cave ice

C Itcus, MD Pascu, P Lavin, A Perşoiu, L Iancu… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Ice entrenched microcosm represents a vast reservoir of novel species and a proxy for past
climate reconstitution. Among glacial ecosystems, ice caves represent one of the scarcely …

[HTML][HTML] Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe

A Perşoiu, N Buzjak, A Onaca, C Pennos… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Glaciers worldwide are shrinking at an accelerated rate as the climate changes in response
to anthropogenic influence. While increasing air temperature is the main factor behind …

Total and potentially active bacterial communities entrapped in a Late Glacial through Holocene ice core from Scarisoara Ice Cave, Romania

VI Paun, G Icaza, P Lavin, C Marin… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Our understanding of the icy-habitat microbiome is likely limited by a lack of reliable data on
microorganisms inhabiting underground ice that has accumulated inside caves. To …