Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine showed that three melanin-containing fungi, "Cladosporium sphaerospermum", "Wangiella dermatitidis", and "Cryptococcus neoformans", increased in biomass and accumulated acetate faster in an environment in which the radiation level was 500 times higher than in the normal environment.
Radiotrofne glive so skupina gliv, ki verjetno uporabljajo pigment melanin za pretvorbo sevanja gama v kemično energijo za rast.