Photobiont selectivity leads to ecological tolerance and evolutionary divergence in a polymorphic complex of lichenized fungi

Annals of Botany

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 463-475

  Muggia, Lucia ^a,b   Pérez Ortega, Sergio ^c   Kopun, Theodora ^b   Zellnig, Günther ^b   Grube, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Algal culture; Crustose lichen; Lecanoromycetes; Lichenized fungi; Morphology; Mycobiont; Photobiont; Phylogeny; Tephromela atra; Trebouxia

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LICHEN; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMORPHISM; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAL DNA; ALGAL PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

ASCOMYCETES; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAL PROTEINS; ASCOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHLOROPHYTA; DNA, ALGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; ECOSYSTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84907405213     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu146     Document Type: Article

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