Yeast diversity in hypersaline habitats

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 229-234

  Butinar, L ^a   Santos, S ^b   Spencer Martins, I ^b   Oren, A ^c   Gunde Cimerman, N ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

26S rDNA sequence; Biodiversity; Halotolerance; Hypersaline water; Yeast

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; LAKE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PICHIA; PICHIA GUILLIERMONDII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOTORULA; SALINITY; SALT TOLERANCE; SEA; SPECIES HABITAT; TRICHOSPORON; UNITED STATES; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA; YEAST;

EID: 14844312894     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.01.043     Document Type: Article

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