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Isolation and Selection of New Astaxanthin-Producing Strains of Phaffia rhodozyma.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2018
Libkind Diego, Moliné Martín, Colabella Fernando
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Astaxanthin is a xanthophyll pigment of high economic value for its use as a feeding component in aquaculture. Phaffia rhodozyma (Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous) is a basidiomycetous fungi able to synthesize astaxanthin as its major carotenoid, the only known yeast species bearing the capability to produce this type of carotenoid and the only tremellomycetes with biotechnological application. Recently, the habitat...
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