Figure 4
From: Sea spray allows for the growth of subaerial microbialites at the driest desert on Earth
Hortaea werneckii, one of the fungal species isolated from the inspected microbialites. (A) Visual aspect of the isolate growing on a Petri dish. (B) Bright field micrograph of cells taken from the plate shown in (A). (C) Raman spectra of melanin isolated from the cells shown in (A). The typical Raman signal of fungal melanin consists of two main bands, with a higher intensity band located in the region 1590–1605 cm−1 and a second around 1350 cm−1 (Culka et al.56). (D–F) Aspect of the H. werneckii cells after irradiation for 10 min with UVA (E) and UVB (F). (D) Is the unexposed control. (D–F) show the plates 2 weeks after been irradiated.
