The MAP kinase HwHog1 from the halophilic black yeast Hortaea werneckii: Coping with stresses in solar salterns

Saline Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Lenassi, Metka ^a   Vaupotic, Tomaz ^a   Gunde Cimerman, Nina ^a   Plemenitas, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; OXIDATION; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SALT WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; YEAST;

CHAETOTHYRIALES; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; HORTAEA WERNECKII; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34250875710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1448-3-3     Document Type: Article

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