Psychrophilic yeasts from worldwide glacial habitats: diversity, adaptation strategies and biotechnological potential

P Buzzini, E Branda, M Goretti… - FEMS microbiology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Glacial habitats (cryosphere) include some of the largest unexplored and extreme
biospheres on Earth. These habitats harbor a wide diversity of psychrophilic prokaryotic and …

Endangered antarctic environments

DA Cowan, LA Tow - Annu. Rev. Microbiol., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The Antarctic continent harbors a range of specialized and sometimes highly
localized microbial biotopes. These include biotopes associated with desiccated mineral …

Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

D Schulze-Makuch, D Wagner… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Traces of life are nearly ubiquitous on Earth. However, a central unresolved question is
whether these traces always indicate an active microbial community or whether, in extreme …

Fungal diversity in soils and historic wood from the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica

BE Arenz, BW Held, JA Jurgens, RL Farrell… - Soil Biology and …, 2006 - Elsevier
Microorganisms play a dominant role in Antarctic ecosystems, yet little is known about how
fungal diversity differs at sites with considerable human activity as compared to those that …

Yeast and yeast-like diversity in the southernmost glacier of Europe (Calderone Glacier, Apennines, Italy)

E Branda, B Turchetti, G Diolaiuti… - FEMS microbiology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The present study reports the characterization of psychrophilic yeast and yeast-like diversity
in cold habitats (superficial and deep sediments, ice cores and meltwaters) of the Calderone …

[HTML][HTML] Small circular single stranded DNA viral genomes in unexplained cases of human encephalitis, diarrhea, and in untreated sewage

TG Phan, D Mori, X Deng, S Rajindrajith, U Ranawaka… - Virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Viruses with small circular ssDNA genomes encoding a replication initiator protein can infect
a wide range of eukaryotic organisms ranging from mammals to fungi. The genomes of two …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial communities associated with Antarctic snow pack and their biogeochemical implications

R Antony, A Sanyal, N Kapse, PK Dhakephalkar… - Microbiological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Snow ecosystems represent a large part of the Earth's biosphere and harbour diverse
microbial communities. Despite our increased knowledge of snow microbial communities …

Antarctic cryptoendolithic fungal communities are highly adapted and dominated by Lecanoromycetes and Dothideomycetes

C Coleine, JE Stajich, L Zucconi, S Onofri… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Endolithic growth is one of the most spectacular microbial adaptations to extreme
environmental constraints and the predominant life-form in the ice-free areas of Continental …

Yeast biodiversity in freshwater, marine and deep-sea environments

T Nagahama - Biodiversity and ecophysiology of yeasts, 2006 - Springer
Many investigators have reported a variety of yeasts in substrates such as water, sediment,
plants, animals and other organic matter in aquatic environments, including rivers (Spencer …

Community Profiling of Fusarium in Combination with Other Plant-Associated Fungi in Different Crop Species Using SMRT Sequencing

F Walder, K Schlaeppi, R Wittwer, AY Held… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Fusarium head blight, caused by fungi from the genus Fusarium, is one of the most harmful
cereal diseases, resulting not only in severe yield losses but also in mycotoxin contaminated …