A Preliminary Survey of Non-Lichenized Fungi Cultured from the Hyperarid Atacama Desert of Chile

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Aug 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006asbio...6..521c&link_type=abstract

Astrobiology, Volume 6, Issue 4, pp. 521-526.

Biology

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16Srrna, Caenorhabditis Elegans Maintenance Medium, Ascomycota, Ustilago

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The Atacama Desert is one of the driest environments on Earth, and has been so for over 200,000 years. Previous reports have suggested that surprisingly low numbers of culturable bacteria, counted as biomass or species diversity, are present in Atacama sands collected from the most hyperarid regions. In previous studies, the presence of eukaryotic organisms was not discussed. In this report, we describe a method of direct plating onto rich media that resulted in culturing a range of fungi from Atacama samples. All fungi identified in this preliminary survey are spore-forming saprobes that are readily dispersed by wind, a likely mechanism that accounts for their presence in the central Atacama Desert.

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