High photobiont diversity associated with the euryoecious lichen-forming ascomycete Lecanora rupicola (Lecanoraceae, Ascomycota)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 283-293

  Blaha, Juliane ^a   Baloch, Elisabeth ^a   Grube, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Lecanora rupicola; Lichens; Phylogeny; Selectivity; Symbiosis; Trebouxia; Trebouxiophyceae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; DNA; LICHEN; PHYLOGENETICS;

ALGAE; ASCOMYCOTA; LECANORA RUPICOLA; LECANORACEAE; TREBOUXIA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33744467397     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00640.x     Document Type: Article

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