Background Microalgae are promising feedstocks for production of renewable biofuels and
value-added bioproducts. Temperature and nitrogen supply are important environmental …

Mountain environments are marked by an altitudinal zonation of habitat types. They are
home to a multitude of terrestrial green algae, who have to cope with abiotic conditions …

Abstract Chlainomonas (Chlamydomonadales, Chlorophyta) is one of the four genera of
snow algae known to produce annual pink or red blooms in alpine snow. No Chlainomonas …

A unicellular alga isolated from snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains (Spain) was
characterised using a polyphasic approach. Comparative analysis of ITS2 rDNA secondary …

The recognition and use of algae in the very trend-driven cosmetic industry is progressively
increasing. Up to now, the main focus was on large seaweeds and a limited number of …

Melting mountainous snowfields are populated by extremophilic microorganisms. An alga
causing orange snow above timberline in the High Tatra Mountains (Poland) was …

Polar regions harbor a diversity of cold-adapted (cryophilic) algae, which can be categorized
into psychrophilic (obligate cryophilic) and cryotrophic (nonobligate cryophilic) snow algae …

Snow algae are photosynthetic microbes growing in thawing snow. They usually show
various morphological cell types. The aim of this study was to carry out microscopic and …

Two green microalgal strains, CCCryo 469-16 and CCCryo 470-16, were isolated from
samples of Antarctic microflora. Their morphology and 18S rRNA sequences indicated a …

We isolated five microalgal strains from alpine snow near Vancouver, Canada, which
display morphological features suggestive of the genera Koliella and Raphidonema. Due to …