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...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2012
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3669513/ |