Psychrophilic yeasts in glacial environments of Alpine glaciers

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-83

  Turchetti, Benedetta ^a   Buzzini, Pietro ^a   Goretti, Marta ^a   Branda, Eva ^a   Diolaiuti, Guglielmina ^b   D'Agata, Carlo ^b   Smiraglia, Claudio ^b   Vaughan Martini, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpine glaciers; Glacial environments; Psychrophilic yeasts

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; NEW SPECIES; VALLEY GLACIER; YEAST;

ARTICLE; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GILVESCENCE; CRYPTOCOCCUS TERRICOLUS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GLACIER; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; LIPOLYSIS; MRAKIA GELIDA; NAGANISHIA GLOBOSA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PSYCHROPHILE; RHODOTORULA BACARUM; RHODOTORULA CREATINIVORA; RHODOTORULA GLACIALIS; RHODOTORULA LARYNGIS; RHODOTORULA PSYCHROPHENOLICA; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

COLD; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ICE COVER; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOTORULA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YEASTS;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GILVESCENS; CRYPTOCOCCUS TERRICOLA; LEUCOSPORIDIELLA CREATINIVORA; MRAKIA GELIDA; RHODOTORULA BACARUM; RHODOTORULA LARYNGIS;

EID: 36849090068     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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