Aitor Rementeria

1. IntroductionSaline and hypersaline environments are widely distributed around the world. The study of these habitats is becoming more common, not only as a means to increase knowledge regarding the structure of their microbial communities but also to gain insights into the adaptations of these organisms to these unique locations. Among hypersaline environments, solar salterns are of particular ...

1. IntroductionAspergillus fumigatus is a saprophytic fungus that can colonize diverse ecological niches facilitated by its great plasticity to adapt to different environments and the wide dispersal of its small, airborne spores called conidia [1,2]. The conidia allow A. fumigatus to reach all chambers of the human respiratory tract, where the fungus is able to cause a wide range of infections dep ...

1. IntroductionAspergillus fumigatus is a saprophytic fungus implicated in nitrogen and carbon recycling. Typically of soil decomposers, it is capable of surviving in a wide range of conditions [1]. It has evolved to be a great competitor against other environmental microorganisms because it possesses a controlled nutritional flexibility to scavenge nutrients from the environment efficiently [2]. ...

1. IntroductionAspergillus fumigatus is a saprophytic mold that plays an important ecological role as a decomposer, recycling carbon and nitrogen sources [1–3]. It is a ubiquitous fungus with a worldwide distribution, which can be detected in air and soil samples, and even on the International Space Station [4–7]. This ubiquity is because it is highly adaptive; able to colonize a wide ...