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- Radiotrophic fungi are fungi that can perform the hypothetical biological process called radiosynthesis, which means using ionizing radiation as an energy...
- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant uncovered some 200 species of apparently radiotrophic fungi containing the pigment melanin on the walls of the reactor room...
- Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a radiotrophic fungus belonging to the genus Cladosporium and was described in 1886 by Albert Julius Otto Penzig from the...
- that some fungi may also obtain energy from ionizing radiation: Such radiotrophic fungi were found growing inside a reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power...
- into the No. 4 reactor returned with samples of black, melanin-rich radiotrophic fungi that grow on the reactor's walls. Of the 440,350 wild boar killed...
- capsule is thought to aid in killing them. Some types of fungi, called radiotrophic fungi, appear to be able to use melanin as a photosynthetic pigment that...
- energy from ionizing radiation, such as gamma radiation. This form of "radiotrophic" growth has been described for only a few species, the effects on growth...
- introgressive hybridization. Radiotrophic fungi is a perfect example of natural selection taking place after a chemical accident. Radiotrophic fungi appears to use...
- of sequenced bacterial genomes Pyrococcus Radiosynthesis (metabolism) Radiotrophic fungus Thermococcus gammatolerans "Most radiation-resistant lifeform"...
- metallireducens and some strains of Burkholderia fungorum.[citation needed] Radiotrophic fungi, which use radiation as an energy source, have been found inside...