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Newly Discovered Halophilic Fungi in the Dead Sea (Israel)

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Journey to Diverse Microbial Worlds

Part of the book series: Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats ((COLE,volume 2))

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Organisms living in extreme environments are called extermophiles because they live under extreme conditions at the edge of life (Madigan and Marrs, 1997). These organisms (thermophiles, alkalophiles, acidophiles, halophiles) do not merely tolerate their extreme living conditions, which are detrimental to most organisms. Remarkably, they do best in these extreme habitats, and in many cases require one or more extremes for reproduction. In other words, they evolved unique adaptive evolutionary strategies to these extreme living conditions, thereby becoming narrow extreme specialists.

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  1. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Tereshchenkivska str. 2, 252601, Kyiv-MSP-1, Ukraine

    Asya S. Buchalo & Solomon P. Wasser

  2. Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mt Carmel, 31905, Haifa, Israel

    Eviatar Nevo & Solomon P. Wasser

  3. East Michigan Mycology Associates, 1805 Jackson Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, 48103-4039, USA

    Paul A. Volz

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Buchalo, A.S., Nevo, E., Wasser, S.P., Volz, P.A. (2000). Newly Discovered Halophilic Fungi in the Dead Sea (Israel). In: Seckbach, J. (eds) Journey to Diverse Microbial Worlds. Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4269-4_17

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