Survival of filamentous fungi in hypersaline Dead Sea water

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-190

  Kis Papo, T ^a   Oren, A ^b   Wasser, S P ^a,c   Nevo, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c M G KHOLODNY INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; SEAWATER; SPORE; SURVIVAL;

DEAD SEA;

ASPERGILLUS VERSICOLOR; CHAETOMIUM GLOBOSUM; EMERICELLA; EUROTIUM HERBARIORUM; FUNGI; GYMNASCELLA; GYMNASCELLA MARISMORTUI;

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS SPORE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISRAEL; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCELIUM; SEA;

FUNGI; ISRAEL; MYCELIUM; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; SPORES, FUNGAL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0038690577     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-002-3006-8     Document Type: Article

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