The symbiotic playground of lichen thalli - a highly flexible photobiont association in rock-inhabiting lichens

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 313-323

  Muggia, Lucia ^a,b   Vancurova, Lucie ^c   Škaloud, Pavel ^c   Peksa, Ondrej ^c,d   Wedin, Mats ^e   Grube, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen   (Czech Republic)

^e SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Communities; Epithalline algae; Genetic diversity; Protoparmeliopsis muralis; Single strand conformation polymorphism; Trebouxia

Indexed keywords

ALGA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; GENOTYPE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOST SPECIFICITY; LICHEN; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITIES; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EPITHALLINE ALGAE; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GREEN ALGA; LICHEN (ORGANISM); PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOPARMELIOPSIS MURALIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE-STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SYMBIOSIS; TREBOUXIA;

COMMUNITIES; EPITHALLINE ALGAE; GENETIC DIVERSITY; PROTOPARMELIOPSIS MURALIS; SINGLE-STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TREBOUXIA;

ASCOMYCOTA; CHLOROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; LICHENS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EUROPE;

ALGAE; FUNGI; TREBOUXIA;

EID: 84880132131     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12120     Document Type: Article

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