Fungal life in the extremely hypersaline water of the Dead Sea: ®rst records
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Asya S. Buchalo1, Eviatar Nevo2*, Solomon P. Wasser1,2, Aharon Oren3 and Hans P. Molitoris4 1Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,Tereshchenkivska Str. 2, 252601 Kyiv-MSP-1, Ukraine 2Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa, Israel 3Division of Microbial and Molecular Ecology,The Alexander Silverman Institute of Life Sciences, and the Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel 4Botanical Institute, Department of Fungal Physiology, Regensburg University, Universita« tsstrasse 31, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
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