Salt stress affects sterol biosynthesis in the halophilic black yeastHortaea werneckii
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- 1 November 1999
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 180 (2) , 325-330
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1999.tb08813.x
Abstract
Hortaea werneckii is a black yeast recently isolated from salterns in Slovenia. Some of the adaptations of halophilic microorganisms to increased saliKeywords
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