Species in lichen-forming fungi: balancing between conceptual and practical considerations, and between phenotype and phylogenomics

R Lücking, SD Leavitt, DL Hawksworth - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
Lichens are symbiotic associations resulting from interactions among fungi (primary and
secondary mycobionts), algae and/or cyanobacteria (primary and secondary photobionts) …

Stop the abuse of time! Strict temporal banding is not the future of rank-based classifications in fungi (including lichens) and other organisms

R Lücking - Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Classification is the most important approach to cataloging biological diversity. It serves as a
principal means of communication between scientific disciplines, as well as between …

Linking a gene cluster to atranorin, a major cortical substance of lichens, through genetic dereplication and heterologous expression

W Kim, R Liu, S Woo, KB Kang, H Park, YH Yu, HH Ha… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The depside and depsidone series compounds of polyketide origin accumulate in the
cortical or medullary layers of lichen thalli. Despite the taxonomic and ecological …

Die Flechten, flechtenbewohnenden und flechtenähnlichen Pilze Deutschlands–eine überarbeitete Checkliste

C Printzen, W von Brackel, H Bültmann, R Cezanne… - Herzogia, 2022 - BioOne
Printzen, c., Brackel, wv, bültmann, h., Cezanne, r., Dolnik, c., Dornes, p., Eckstein, j., Eichler,
m., John, v., Killmann, d., Nimis, pl, Otte, v., Schiefelbein, u., Schultz, m., Stordeur, r., Teuber …

Global Biodiversity Patterns of the Photobionts Associated with the Genus Cladonia (Lecanorales, Ascomycota)

R Pino-Bodas, S Stenroos - Microbial Ecology, 2021 - Springer
The diversity of lichen photobionts is not fully known. We studied here the diversity of the
photobionts associated with Cladonia, a sub-cosmopolitan genus ecologically important …

Promiscuity in Lichens Follows Clear Rules: Partner Switching in Cladonia Is Regulated by Climatic Factors and Soil Chemistry

Z Škvorová, I Černajová, J Steinová, O Peksa… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Climatic factors, soil chemistry and geography are considered as major factors affecting
lichen distribution and diversity. To determine how these factors limit or support the …

[HTML][HTML] Actualización nomenclatural y taxonómica del Catálogo de Líquenes de Colombia

R Lücking, B Moncada, E Soto-Medina… - Revista de la …, 2021 - scielo.org.co
Presentamos una actualización nomenclatural y taxonómica del Catálogo de Liqúenes de
Colombia. Como resultado, el número de nombres reportados se reduce de 1821 a 1793, el …

[PDF][PDF] Combining environmental DNA data and taxonomic surveys provides an unprecedented understanding of lichen diversity and accelerates the discovery of new …

J Vondrák, S Svoboda, J Malíček, J Šoun, J Košnar… - Preslia, 2024 - researchgate.net
Sequencing of environmental DNA is increasingly used to estimate biodiversity at various
taxonomic and spatial levels. However, most such studies tend to deal with abstract …

The first survey of Cystobasidiomycete yeasts in the lichen genus Cladonia; with the description of Lichenozyma pisutiana gen. nov., sp. nov.

I Černajová, P Škaloud - Fungal Biology, 2019 - Elsevier
The view of lichens as a symbiosis only between a mycobiont and a photobiont has been
challenged by discoveries of diverse associated organisms. Specific basidiomycete yeasts …

New lineages of photobionts in Bolivian lichens expand our knowledge on habitat preferences and distribution of Asterochloris algae

M Kosecka, B Guzow-Krzemińska, I Černajová… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We studied the biodiversity of Asterochloris photobionts found in Bolivian lichens to better
understand their global spatial distribution and adaptation strategies in the context of a …