Fungi of Antarctica

1. Front Matter

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2. 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

3. Uncultivated Fungi from Antarctica

   • Alysson Wagner Fernandes Duarte, Victor Borin Centurion, Valéria Maia Oliveira

   Pages 19-41

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Fungus-Invertebrate Interactions in Antarctica

    • Felipe Lorenz Simões, Peter Convey, Láuren Drumond, Lívia da Costa Coelho, Luiz Henrique Rosa

    Pages 201-219

11. 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

12. 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

13. Bioactive Compounds Produced by Antarctic Filamentous Fungi

    • Inmaculada Vaca, Renato Chávez

    Pages 265-283

14. 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

15. 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

16. Genomics of Antarctic Fungi: A New Frontier

    • Heron Oliveira Hilário, Thiago Mafra Batista, Glória Regina Franco

    Pages 319-338

17. Back Matter

    Pages 339-345

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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.

• extremophiles
• polar microbiology
• mycology
• Antarctica
• polar biodiversity
• polar geography

• Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  Luiz Henrique Rosa

Luiz Henrique Rosa is Professor at the Department of Microbiology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He has been working on Antarctic microorganisms since 2016, and has taken part in more than ten scientific expeditions to Antarctica. He is the head of the Brazilian Antarctic Program and coordinates the project Antarctic Mycology (MycoAntar): diversity and biotechnology of extremophile fungi from Antarctica.

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