Fungi of Antarctica : Diversity, Ecology and Biotechnological Applications

"This book focuses on the fungi found in one of the most pristine regions on Earth: Antarctica. It discusses the fungal occurrence in all substrates of the region, including soil, seawater, lake and marine sediments, rocks, ice, and snow. It also addresses the impact of climate changes on these organisms, the genomic techniques developed to study them, and how a number of compounds, such as antibiotics and enzymes, produced by the Antarctic fungi can be used in medicine, agriculture and the chemical industry." -- prové de l'editor Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Fungi in Antarctica: Diversity, Ecology, Effects of Climate Change, and Bioprospection for Bioactive Compounds (Luiz Henrique Rosa, Carlos Leomar Zani, Charles Lowell Cantrell, Stephen Oscar Duke, Patrick Van Dijck, Alessandro Desideri et al.)....Pages 1-17 Uncultivated Fungi from Antarctica (Alysson Wagner Fernandes Duarte, Victor Borin Centurion, Valéria Maia Oliveira)....Pages 19-41 Fungi Present in Soils of Antarctica (Eldon Carlos Queres Gomes, Hebert Morais Figueredo, Fábio Soares de Oliveira, Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud Schaefer, Roberto Ferreira Michel, Carlos Augusto Rosa et al.)....Pages 43-67 Diversity and Ecology of Fungal Assemblages Present in Lakes of Antarctica (Mayara Baptistucci Ogaki, Rosemary Vieira, Juan Manuel Lírio, Carlos Augusto Rosa, Luiz Henrique Rosa)....Pages 69-97 Rock-Inhabiting Fungi in Antarctica: New Frontiers of the Edge of Life (Vívian Nicolau Gonçalves, Isabel Martins Sabino Alves, Fábio Soares de Oliveira, Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud Schaefer, Caio Vinícius Gabrig Turbay, Carlos Augusto Rosa et al.)....Pages 99-126 Fungi in Snow and Glacial Ice of Antarctica (Graciéle Cunha Alves de Menezes, Bárbara Alves Porto, Jefferson Cardia Simões, Carlos Augusto Rosa, Luiz Henrique Rosa)....Pages 127-146 Antarctic Permafrost: An Unexplored Fungal Microhabitat at the Edge of Life (Thamar Holanda da Silva, Débora Amorim Saraiva Silva, André Thomazini, Carlos Ernesto Gonçalves Reynaud Schaefer, Luiz Henrique Rosa)....Pages 147-164 Fungi Associated with Plants and Lichens of Antarctica (Camila Rodrigues de Carvalho, Iara Furtado Santiago, Lívia da Costa Coelho, Paulo Eduardo Aguiar Saraiva Câmara, Micheline Carvalho Silva, Michael Stech et al.)....Pages 165-199 Fungus-Invertebrate Interactions in Antarctica (Felipe Lorenz Simões, Peter Convey, Láuren Drumond, Lívia da Costa Coelho, Luiz Henrique Rosa)....Pages 201-219 Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic Marine Ecosystems: An Unexplored Ecosystem of Fungal Diversity (Luiz Henrique Rosa, Franciane Maria Pellizzari, Mayara Baptistucci Ogaki, Maria Thereza Rafaela de Paula, Andrés Mansilla, Johanna Marambio et al.)....Pages 221-242 The Use of Psychrophilic Antarctic Yeast in the Biological Control of Post-harvest Diseases of Fruits Stored at Low Temperatures (Eskálath Morganna Silva Ferreira, Deyse Alencar Resende, Silvana Vero, Raphael Sanzio Pimenta)....Pages 243-263 Bioactive Compounds Produced by Antarctic Filamentous Fungi (Inmaculada Vaca, Renato Chávez)....Pages 265-283 Antarctic Yeasts as a Source of Enzymes for Biotechnological Applications (Maria Martha Martorell, Lucas Adolfo Mauro Ruberto, Lucía Inés Castellanos de Figueroa, Walter Patricio Mac Cormack)....Pages 285-304 Antarctic Fungi as Producers of Pigments (Alysson Wagner Fernandes Duarte, Graciéle Cunha Alves de Menezes, Tiago Rodrigues e Silva, Juliano Lemos Bicas, Valéria Maia Oliveira, Luiz Henrique Rosa)....Pages 305-318 Genomics of Antarctic Fungi: A New Frontier (Heron Oliveira Hilário, Thiago Mafra Batista, Glória Regina Franco)....Pages 319-338 Back Matter ....Pages 339-345