Marine yeasts—a review

@article{Kutty2008MarineYR,
  title={Marine yeasts—a review},
  author={Sreedevi N. Kutty and Rosamma Philip},
  journal={Yeast},
  year={2008},
  volume={25}
}
Yeasts are ubiquitous in their distribution and populations mainly depend on the type and concentration of organic materials. The distribution of species, as well as their numbers and metabolic characteristics were found to be governed by existing environmental conditions. Marine yeasts were first discovered from the Atlantic Ocean and following this discovery, yeasts were isolated from different sources, viz. seawater, marine deposits, seaweeds, fish, marine mammals and sea birds. Near‐shore… 
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