Domestication of algae by lichen-forming fungi describes the symbiotic relationship between the photosynthetic (green alga or cyanobacterium; photobiont) and fungal (mycobiont) partnership in lichen associations (Goward 1992). The algal domestication implies that the mycobiont cultivates the alga as a monoculture within its thallus, analogous to a farmer cultivating a food crop. However, the in...

Se presentan los resultados del estudio sobre la diversidad de líquenes terrícolas en Montes Toledo. han identificado 103 especies, 14 se citan por primera vez Castilla-La Mancha y otras 32 son novedad para Las zonas con mayor riqueza taludes pistas forestales interior melojares o cercanos a cauces ríos. Destacamos algunas especies más caraterísticas norte peninsular, que zona refugian frescos ...

This study aims to explore and identify the types of Lichenes that exist at Mutis Mount Area, Noepesu Village, West Miomaffo District, Biology Education Laboratory, University Timor. research was conducted for 6 months starting from May-October 2022. is descriptive qualitative research. Sampling used a purposive sampling method. The collected were identified based on their characteristics using...

The microalgae of the genus Asterochloris are the preferential phycobionts in Cladonia, Lepraria and Stereocaulon lichens. Recent studies have highlighted the hidden diversity of the genus, even though phycobionts hosting species of the genus Cladonia in Mediterranean and Canarian ecosystems have been poorly explored. Phylogenetic analyses were made by concatenation of the sequences obtained wi...

A molecular phylogeny of the Lecanora rupicola group is presented, based on ITS sequence analyses. The study includes saxicolous and corticolous members of the Lecanora rupicola group as well as other Lecanora species with pruinose apothecia. A phylogenetic hypothesis for species in Lecanora s. lat. and various other genera in Lecanoraceae, based on an alignment-free distance estimation techniq...

Epiphytic lichens were surveyed in the “Bosco Siro Negri” Integral Nature State Reserve (province of Pavia, Lombardy, NW Italy), which hosts a well-preserved fragment oak-elm floodplain forest (Natura 2000 Habitat 91F0). The core woodland hosted only four species on tree boles, i.e. Lepraria finkii plus specialists Coenogonium pineti, Diarthonis spadicea, and Opegrapha vermicellifera. An additi...

Increasing temperature and changing land-use in the Guayana Shield Amazonia result an accelerated decline of sensitive lichen populations. Monitoring these populations by biological plot inventories particularly vulnerable sites is urgently needed. In order to know diversity distribution species at Alto Orinoco, Parque Nacional Duida-Marahuaca nearby areas from Amazonas state, Venezuela, lichen...