Cold-adapted yeasts in alpine and apennine glaciers

Cold-adapted Yeasts: Biodiversity, Adaptation Strategies and Biotechnological Significance

Volumn 9783642396816, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-122

  Turchetti, Benedetta ^a   Goretti, Marta ^a   Buzzini, Pietro ^a   Margesin, Rosa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine glaciers; Apennine glacier; Cryoconites; Subglacial Supraglacial

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930361161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39681-6_5     Document Type: Chapter

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