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Cold-Adapted Yeasts: A Lesson from the Cold and a Challenge for the XXI Century

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Cold-adapted Yeasts

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Yeasts are a versatile group of eukaryotic organisms and widely distributed in worldwide microbiomes. The literature on cold-adapted yeasts considerably increased in the last two decades. For some decades, Antarctica has been the geographical area preferred by microbiologists for studying the diversity of cold-adapted microorganisms including yeasts. However, in more recent years, the biodiversity and the ecology of cold-adapted yeast populations colonizing worldwide non-Antarctic cold habitats have attracted an increasing number of scientists. Like other microbial taxa, yeasts inhabiting cold ecosystems have evolved a set of structural and functional adaptation strategies to overcome the negative effects of cold (sometimes associated with other limiting conditions) that make such extreme habitats very inhospitable for microbial life. Due to their singular phenotypic traits, cold-adapted yeasts have also been studied in recent years for their biotechnological potential.

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Buzzini, P., Margesin, R. (2014). Cold-Adapted Yeasts: A Lesson from the Cold and a Challenge for the XXI Century. In: Buzzini, P., Margesin, R. (eds) Cold-adapted Yeasts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39681-6_1

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