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Back to the Salt Mines: Genome and Transcriptome Comparisons of the Halophilic Fungus Aspergillus salisburgensis and Its Halotolerant Relative Aspergillus sclerotialis

2019; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 10; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/genes10050381

2073-4425

Hakim Tafer, Caroline Poyntner, Ksenija Lopandić, Katja Sterflinger, Guadalupe Piñar,

Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis

Salt mines are among the most extreme environments as they combine darkness, low nutrient availability, and hypersaline conditions. Based on comparative genomics and transcriptomics, we describe in this work the adaptive strategies of the true halophilic fungus