Fungi are key players in extreme ecosystems

Endolithic microbial composition in Helliwell Hills, a newly investigated Mars‐like area in Antarctica

(2021) Claudia Coleine et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Astrobiology of life on Earth

(2021) John E. Hallsworth et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pre-Cambrian roots of novel Antarctic cryptoendolithic bacterial lineages

(2021) Davide Albanese et al.   Microbiome

Identification of the pigment and its role in UV resistance in Paecilomyces variotii, a Chernobyl isolate, using genetic manipulation strategies

(2021) Sujeung Lim et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Novel Antarctic yeast adapts to cold by switching energy metabolism and increasing small RNA synthesis

(2021) D. Touchette et al.   ISME Journal

Physiological, Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses Reveal the Adaptation Mechanisms of Acidiella bohemica to Extreme Acid Mine Drainage Environments

(2021) Shu-ning Ou et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Seven Years at High Salinity—Experimental Evolution of the Extremely Halotolerant Black Yeast Hortaea werneckii

(2021) Cene Gostinčar et al.   Journal of Fungi

Fungal biomineralization

(2021) Geoffrey Michael Gadd   CURRENT BIOLOGY

SnapShot: Microbial Extremophiles

(2020) Amy K. Schmid et al.   CELL

Genomic Insights Into Sugar Adaptation in an Extremophile Yeast Zygosaccharomyces rouxii

(2020) Hong Guo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A biomimetic approach to shielding from ionizing radiation: The case of melanized fungi

(2020) Thomas Vasileiou et al.   PLoS One

Microbiome and ecology of a hot spring-microbialite system on the Trans-Himalayan Plateau

(2020) Chayan Roy et al.   Scientific Reports

Beyond the extremes: Rocks as ultimate refuge for fungi in drylands

(2020) Claudia Coleine et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Proteomic characterization of Aspergillus fumigatus isolated from air and surfaces of the International Space Station

(2019) Adriana Blachowicz et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Fungi, a neglected component of acidophilic biofilms: do they have a potential for biotechnology?

(2019) Martina Hujslová et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Limits of Life and the Habitability of Mars: The ESA Space Experiment BIOMEX on the ISS

(2019) Jean-Pierre de Vera et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Fungal evolution: major ecological adaptations and evolutionary transitions

(2019) Miguel A. Naranjo‐Ortiz et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Lessons from early Earth: UV surface radiation should not limit the habitability of active M star systems

(2019) Jack T O’Malley-James et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Living at the Extremes: Extremophiles and the Limits of Life in a Planetary Context

(2019) Nancy Merino et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Proteomic and Metabolomic Characteristics of Extremophilic Fungi Under Simulated Mars Conditions

(2019) Adriana Blachowicz et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Extremophilic models for astrobiology: haloarchaeal survival strategies and pigments for remote sensing

(2019) Shiladitya DasSarma et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Population Genomics of an Obligately Halophilic Basidiomycete Wallemia ichthyophaga

(2019) Cene Gostinčar et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Cultivable fungi present in deep-sea sediments of Antarctica: taxonomy, diversity, and bioprospecting of bioactive compounds

(2019) Mayara B. Ogaki et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Ionizing Radiation and Complex DNA Damage: From Prediction to Detection Challenges and Biological Significance

(2019) Ifigeneia V. Mavragani et al.   Cancers

Review of resistance to chronic ionizing radiation exposure under environmental conditions in multicellular organisms

(2019) Igor Shuryak   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY

Morphological changes in melanized and non-melanized Cryptococcus neoformans cells post exposure to sparsely and densely ionizing radiation demonstrate protective effect of melanin

(2018) Mackenzie E. Malo et al.   Fungal Biology

Resistance of an Antarctic cryptoendolithic black fungus to radiation gives new insights of astrobiological relevance

(2018) Laura Selbmann et al.   Fungal Biology

Effect of microgravity & space radiation on microbes

(2018) Giuliana Senatore et al.   Future Microbiology

Extremophilic yeasts: the toughest yeasts around?

(2018) Pietro Buzzini et al.   YEAST

The role of anaerobic fungi in fundamental biogeochemical cycles in the deep biosphere

(2018) Henrik Drake et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Competition of As and other Group 15 elements for surface binding sites of an extremophilic Acidomyces acidophilus isolated from a historical tin mining site

(2018) Wai Kit Chan et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Characterization of Aspergillus niger Isolated from the International Space Station

(2018) Jillian Romsdahl et al.   mSystems

Survival, DNA, and Ultrastructural Integrity of a Cryptoendolithic Antarctic Fungus in Mars and Lunar Rock Analogues Exposed Outside the International Space Station

(2018) Silvano Onofri et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Fungi in acidic fire: A potential source of industrially important enzymes

(2018) Noor Hassan et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Aspergillus penicillioidesdifferentiation and cell division at 0.585 water activity

(2017) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution of phenotypic plasticity in extreme environments

(2017) Luis-Miguel Chevin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogeny of xerophilic aspergilli (subgenus Aspergillus ) and taxonomic revision of section Restricti

(2017) F. Sklenář et al.   STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY

Insight into the Recent Genome Duplication of the Halophilic Yeast Hortaea werneckii : Combining an Improved Genome with Gene Expression and Chromatin Structure

(2017) Sunita Sinha et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Functions of fungal melanin beyond virulence

(2017) Radames J.B. Cordero et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Protective role of trehalose during radiation and heavy metal stress in Aureobasidium subglaciale F134

(2017) Tingting Liu et al.   Scientific Reports

The Pale Orange Dot: The Spectrum and Habitability of Hazy Archean Earth

(2016) Giada Arney et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Anaerobic Fungi: A Potential Source of Biological H2 in the Oceanic Crust

(2016) Magnus Ivarsson et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A New Fungal Isolate, Penidiella sp. Strain T9, Accumulates the Rare Earth Element Dysprosium

(2015) Takumi Horiike et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Concomitant osmotic and chaotropicity-induced stresses in Aspergillus wentii: compatible solutes determine the biotic window

(2015) Flávia de Lima Alves et al.   CURRENT GENETICS

Fungal Traits That Drive Ecosystem Dynamics on Land

(2015) Kathleen K. Treseder et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere

(2015) Michael D. J. Lynch et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Genome and physiology of the ascomycete filamentous fungusXeromyces bisporus, the most xerophilic organism isolated to date

(2014) Su-lin L. Leong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic adaptations of the halophilic Dead Sea filamentous fungus Eurotium rubrum

(2014) Tamar Kis-Papo et al.   Nature Communications

Halophilic Aspergillus penicillioides from athalassohaline, thalassohaline, and polyhaline environments

(2014) Sarita W. Nazareth et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Osmoadaptation Strategy of the Most Halophilic Fungus, Wallemia ichthyophaga, Growing Optimally at Salinities above 15% NaCl

(2013) Janja Zajc et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genome and transcriptome sequencing of the halophilic fungus Wallemia ichthyophaga: haloadaptations present and absent

(2013) Janja Zajc et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Differences in fungal and bacterial physiology alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycling: insights from meta-analysis and theoretical models

(2013) Bonnie G. Waring et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Alteration of protein patterns in black rock inhabiting fungi as a response to different temperatures

(2012) Donatella Tesei et al.   Fungal Biology

The Lichen Connections of Black Fungi

(2012) Lucia Muggia et al.   MYCOPATHOLOGIA

Biodiversity, evolution and adaptation of fungi in extreme environments

(2012) Laura Selbmann et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Rock-inhabiting fungi originated during periods of dry climate in the late Devonian and middle Triassic

(2011) Cécile Gueidan et al.   Fungal Biology

Exophiala sideris, a novel black yeast isolated from environments polluted with toxic alkyl benzenes and arsenic

(2011) Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi et al.   Fungal Biology

Unusual fungal niches

(2011) S.A. Cantrell et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Physical basis of radiation protection in space travel

(2011) Marco Durante et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Limits of life in hostile environments: no barriers to biosphere function?

(2009) Jim P. Williams et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Extremotolerance in fungi: evolution on the edge

(2009) Cene Gostinčar et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Cryptococcus ibericus sp. nov., Cryptococcus aciditolerans sp. nov. and Cryptococcus metallitolerans sp. nov., a new ecoclade of anamorphic basidiomycetous yeast species from an extreme environment associated with acid rock drainage in Sao Domingos pyrite mine, Portugal

(2009) M. Gadanho et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Fungi and ionizing radiation from radionuclides

(2008) John Dighton et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS