From Dandruff to Deep-Sea Vents: Malassezia-like Fungi Are Ecologically Hyper-diverse
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From Dandruff to Deep-Sea Vents: Malassezia-like Fungi Are Ecologically Hyper-diverse
As the dominant component of the mycobiota on human skin [1] —both healthy and diseased [2] —the genus Malassezia has received a fair amount of attention. Since the middle of the 19th century, researchers have linked these fungi with skin maladies such as dandruff and eczema [3], but their difficulty to culture axenically long hampered studies of their systematics and diversity [4]. Malassezia ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Pathogens
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1553-7374
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004277