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Fungi isolated from Antarctic mosses

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Microfungi were isolated from different moss species in Victoria Land. Twenty-eight taxa belonging to 18 genera were identified. New records for continental Antarctica were: Arthrobotrys superba, Conidiobolus sp., Penicillium minioluteum, Verticillium psalliotae and V. lamellicola. The most frequently isolated fungal species were: Cladosporium cladosporioides, Cryptococcus albidus, Cryptococcus laurentii, Geomyces pannorum var. pannorum, G. pannorum var. vinaceus, Mortierella antarctica, Cadophora malorum, Phoma herbarum and V. lecanii. Bryum pseudotriquetrum was the moss richest in fungal species. Within the Antarctic environment, moss is one of the microhabitats richest in microfungi, particularly in psychrophilic indigenous species.

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  1. Università di Pavia, Dipartimento di Ecologia del Territorio e degli Ambienti Terrestri, Sezione di Micologia, via S. Epifanio 14, 27100 Pavia, Italy, , , , ,

    Solveig Tosi, Begoña Casado & Giuseppe Caretta

  2. Università di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Biologia, Sezione di Botanica, C.so Porta Mare, 2, 44100 Ferrara, Italy, , , , ,

    Renato Gerdol

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Tosi, S., Casado, B., Gerdol, R. et al. Fungi isolated from Antarctic mosses. Polar Biol 25, 262–268 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-001-0337-8

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