Several decades of research across disciplines have overturned historical perspectives of
symbioses dominated by binary characterizations of highly specific species–species …

Global climate change (GCC) increasingly threatens biodiversity through the loss of species,
and the transformation of entire ecosystems. Many species are challenged by the pace of …

An understanding of how biotic interactions shape species' distributions is central to
predicting host–symbiont responses under climate change. Switches to locally adapted …

Compared to other organisms, such as vascular plants or mosses, lichen‐forming fungi have
a high number of species occurring in both northern and southern hemispheres but are …

Holobionts are dynamic ecosystems that may respond to abiotic drivers with compositional
changes. Uncovering elevational diversity patterns within these microecosystems can further …

Lichens have traditionally been considered the symbiotic phenotype from the interactions of
a single fungal partner and one or few photosynthetic partners. However, lichen symbioses …

Natural products can contribute to abiotic stress tolerance in plants and fungi. We
hypothesize that biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs), the genomic elements that underlie …

The implementation of HTS (high-throughput sequencing) approaches is rapidly changing
our understanding of the lichen symbiosis, by uncovering high bacterial and fungal diversity …

Lichens are valuable models in symbiosis research and promising sources of biosynthetic
genes for biotechnological applications. Most lichenized fungi grow slowly, resist …

The large distributional areas and ecological niches of many lichenized fungi may in part be
due to the plasticity in interactions between the fungus (mycobiont) and its algal or …