Halophilic black yeast Hortaea werneckii in the Cabo Rojo solar salterns: Its first record for this extreme environment in Puerto Rico

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 360-365

  Díaz Muñoz, Greetchen ^a   Montalvo Rodríguez, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Hortaea werneckii; Hypersaline; Molecular taxonomy; Mycobiota

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; NEW RECORD; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; OCEANIC REGIONS; PUERTO RICO; WORLD;

CHAETOTHYRIALES; FUNGI; HORTAEA; HORTAEA WERNECKII; TINEA NIGRA;

EID: 24644453617     PISSN: 00086452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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