The Antarctic Ocean is one of the most remote and inaccessible environments on our planet
and hosts potentially high biodiversity, being largely unexplored and undescribed. Fungi …

Polar environments pose extreme challenges for life due to low temperatures, limited water,
high radiation, and frozen landscapes. Despite these harsh conditions, numerous macro …

Highly simplified microbial communities colonise rocks and soils of continental Antarctica ice‐
free deserts. These two habitats impose different selection pressures on organisms, yet the …

The genus Pseudogymnoascus represents a diverse group of fungi widely distributed in
different cold regions on Earth. Our current knowledge of the species of Pseudogymnoascus …

Although microorganisms are the very first colonizers of recently deglaciated soils even prior
to plant colonization, the drivers and patterns of microbial community succession at early …

We studied the culturable fungal community recovered from deep marine sediments in the
maritime Antarctic, and assessed their capabilities to produce exoenzymes, emulsifiers and …

The fungal strains Pseudogymnoascus are a kind of psychrophilic pathogenic fungi that are
ubiquitously distributed in Antarctica, while the studies of their secondary metabolites are …

Microorganisms that inhabit the cold Antarctic environment can produce ligninolytic
enzymes potentially useful in bioremediation. Our study focused on characterizing Antarctic …

Simple Summary The Kingdom Fungi is one of the richest in species, most of which are still
unknown. Many fungal species are hidden in the tropics, the area richest in biodiversity on …

Harsh and extreme environments, such as Antarctica, offer unique opportunities to explore
new microbial taxa and biomolecules. Given the limited knowledge on microbial diversity …