Maxwel Adriano Abegg

Is There Truly a Hidden Diversity of Environmental Yeasts—and Can in Situ Cultivation Help Reveal It?

Maxwel Adriano Abegg · South Asian Journal of Research in Microbiology · 2026

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) has revealed widespread signals of unknown fungal taxa across diverse environments. However, interpreting these signals as hidden yeast diversity requires cautious, lineage-aware scrutiny. Several factors motivate this caution: broad surveys often...