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Global distribution, diversity hot spots and niche transitions of an astaxanthin-producing eukaryotic microbe.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2014
David-Palma Márcia, Libkind Diego, Sampaio José Paulo
Abstract excerpt
Microbes establish very diverse but still poorly understood associations with other microscopic or macroscopic organisms that do not follow the more conventional modes of competition or mutualism. Phaffia rhodozyma, an orange-coloured yeast that produces the biotechnologically relevant carotenoid astaxanthin, exhibits a Holarctic association with birch trees in temperate forests that contrasts with the more...
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