Low water activity induces the production of bioactive metabolites in halophilic and halotolerant fungi

Marine Drugs

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-58

  Sepcic, Kristina ^a   Zalar, Polona ^a   Gunde Cimerman, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Black yeast; Hemolysis; Hypersaline environments; NaCl; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; WATER;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HABITAT; HALOPHILE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MESOPHILE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHAETOTHYRIALES; FUNGI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 79251509570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md9010043     Document Type: Article

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