The Vestfold Hills are alive: characterising microbial and environmental dynamics in Old Wallow, eastern Antarctica

DS Chelliah, AE Ray, E Zhang, A Terauds… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Old Wallow is an underexplored, hyper-arid coastal desert in Antarctica's Vestfold Hills.
Situated near an elephant seal wallow, we examined how stochastic nutrient inputs from the …

Penicillium psychrofluorescens sp. nov., a naturally autofluorescent Antarctic fungus

A Furnell, N Benaud, X Vázquez-Campos, ECY Liew… - Mycology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new fungal species, Penicillium psychrofluorescens sp. nov. is described as a
member of section Torulomyces. The new species is sister to P. catalonicum, and was …