Appreciation: Fungal life on the space station

For those who like fungi whether they are terrestrial or not .... :-)

Below link to a report published April 2019 documenting fungal and other life residing in the international space station.

Notable fungi include;

Penicillium, including P. chrysogenum
Aspergillus, including A. fumiugatus
Cryptococcus
Rhodotorula, including R. mucilaginosa​

Total fungi species found are in genera belonging to the (families, clades and phyla);

Lasiosphaeriaceae
Basidiomycota
Ulocladium
Dothideomycetes
Exobasidiomycetes
Vuilleminiaceae
Mycosphaerellaceae
Ascomycota
Sporidiobolaceae
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https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-019-0666-x