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SUBMITTER: Turchetti B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6027198 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Turchetti Benedetta B Selbmann Laura L Gunde-Cimerman Nina N Buzzini Pietro P Sampaio José Paulo JP Zalar Polona P
Life (Basel, Switzerland) 20180505 2
Over 80% of the Earth’s environments are permanently or periodically exposed to temperatures below 5 °C. Cold habitats harbour a wide diversity of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant yeasts. During ecological studies of yeast communities carried out in cold ecosystem in the Italian Alps, Svalbard (Norway, Arctic region), and Portugal, 23 yeast strains that could not be assigned to any known fungal taxa were isolated. In particular, two of them were first identified as <i>Rhodotorula</i> ...[more]