Extreme environments on Earth are typically devoid of macro life forms and are inhabited
predominantly by highly adapted and specialized microorganisms. The discovery and …

Microbial growth under extreme conditions is often slow. This is partly because large
amounts of energy are diverted into cellular mechanisms that allow survival under hostile …

Hypersaline waters and glacial ice are inhospitable environments that have low water
activity and high concentrations of osmolytes. They are inhabited by diverse microbial …

Background The great diversity of lifestyles and survival strategies observed in fungi is
reflected in the many ways in which they reproduce and recombine. Although a complete …

Species delimitation is one of the most fundamental processes in biology. Biodiversity
undertakings, for instance, require explicit species concepts and criteria for species …

Most of the world's biodiversity lives in cold (− 2° to 4° C) and hypersaline environments. To
understand how cells adapt to such conditions, we isolated two key components of the …

Since the very first steps of space exploration, fungi have been recorded as contaminants,
hitchhikers, or as part of missions' crews and payloads. Because fungi can cause human …

Natural hypersaline environments are inhabited by an abundance of prokaryotic and
eukaryotic microorganisms capable of thriving under extreme saline conditions. Yeasts …

Experimental evolution was carried out to investigate the adaptive responses of
extremotolerant fungi to a stressful environment. For 12 cultivation cycles, the halotolerant …

The study aimed to investigate the effect of fermentation brines and containers on the
composition and functional dissimilarity of microbiota in fermented chili peppers: pool with …