Microcolonial Fungi on Rocks: A Life in Constant Drought?

Mycopathologia

Volumn 175, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 537-547

  Zakharova, Kristina ^a   Tesei, Donatella ^a   Marzban, Gorji ^a   Dijksterhuis, Jan ^b   Wyatt, Timon ^b   Sterflinger, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anhydrobiosis; Black yeast; Protein profiling; Trehalose; Two dimensional gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DESERT CLIMATE; DESICCATION; FLUID THERAPY; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

DESERT CLIMATE; DESICCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FLUID THERAPY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PROTEOME; TEMPERATURE;

CHAETOTHYRIALES; CONIOSPORIUM PERFORANS; CRYOMYCES ANTARCTICUS; EUKARYOTA; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA JEANSELMEI; FUNGI; KNUFIA;

EID: 84878620923     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-012-9592-1     Document Type: Article

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