Items for "salterns"

Melanized halophilic fungi are eukaryotic members of microbial communities in hypersaline waters of solar salterns

Until recently, it was believed that microbial communities at high salinities are dominated exclusively by Archaea and Bacteria and one eukaryotic species, the alga Dunaliella salina. Recently, it became evident that melanized fungi, so far described only in the crystallization pond of Adriatic salterns within the season of salt production, can be considered as a new group of eukaryotic halophiles...

Keywords: black yeasts, Cladosporium, hypersaline water, melanized fungi, salterns