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A comparative study of the structure of micromycete complexes has been performed. The samples of micromycetes were taken by boring from unique habitats: cryopegs (lenses of non-freezing hypersaline water in ancient permafrost horizons) and permafrost Arctic sediments of different age enclosing these cryopegs. The possibility of characterizing the above habitats by the structure of specific complexes of microscopic fungi using qualitative and quantitative indices at extremely low numbers of these organisms was demonstrated.
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Original Russian Text © S.M. Ozerskaya, G.A. Kochkina, N.E. Ivanushkina, E.V. Knyazeva, D.A. Gilichinskii, 2008, published in Mikrobiologiya, 2008, Vol. 77, No. 4, pp. 542–550.
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Ozerskaya, S.M., Kochkina, G.A., Ivanushkina, N.E. et al. The structure of micromycete complexes in permafrost and cryopegs of the arctic. Microbiology 77, 482–489 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261708040152
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