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Journal of Fungi, 2021 Microbial endolithic communities are the main and most widespread life forms in the coldest and hyper-arid desert of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and other ice-free areas across Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Lucia Muggia +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Lichens are major components of high altitude/latitude ecosystems. However, accurately characterizing their biodiversity is challenging because these regions and habitats are often underexplored, there are numerous poorly known taxonomic groups, and ...
Steven D. Leavitt +5 more
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Characterizing Crustose Lichen Communities—DNA Metabarcoding Reveals More than Meets the Eye
Diversity, 2022 Biodiversity inventories are important for informing land management strategies, conservation efforts, and for biomonitoring studies. For many organismal groups, including lichens, comprehensive, accurate inventories are challenging due to the necessity ...
Jacob R. Henrie +4 more
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Ancient horizontal gene transfer from bacteria enhances biosynthetic capabilities of fungi. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Polyketides are natural products with a wide range of biological functions and pharmaceutical applications. Discovery and utilization of polyketides can be facilitated by understanding the evolutionary processes that gave rise to the biosynthetic ...
Imke Schmitt, H Thorsten Lumbsch
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Diversity of Lecidea (Lecideaceae, Ascomycota) species revealed by molecular data and morphological characters [PDF]
, 2002 The diversity of lichens, especially crustose species, in continental Antarctica is still poorly known. To overcome difficulties with the morphology based species delimitations in these groups, we employed molecular data (nuclear ITS and mitochondrial ...
Branson, K +20 more
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In silico prediction of type I PKS gene modules in nine lichenized fungi
Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment, 2021 The novel biologically active molecules could play a significant role in the treatment of human diseases. Natural products have been and continue to be a major source of pharmaceuticals, and lichen secondary metabolites emerge as never-ending potential ...
Mine Turktas Erken +2 more
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Conservation, 2022 Subalpine habitats in sky islands in the Southwestern USA are currently facing large-scale transformations. Lichens have widely been used as bioindicators of environmental change.
Abigail Robison +3 more
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Photobiont selectivity leads to ecological tolerance and evolutionary divergence in a polymorphic complex of lichenized fungi [PDF]
, 2014 Background and Aims The integrity and evolution of lichen symbioses depend on a fine-tuned combination of algal and fungal genotypes. Geographically widespread species complexes of lichenized fungi can occur in habitats with slightly varying ecological ...
Grube, Martin +4 more
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Metabolic Engineering Communications, 2021 Lichen-forming fungi produce a variety of secondary metabolites including bioactive polyketides. Advances in DNA and RNA sequencing have led to a growing database of new lichen gene clusters encoding polyketide synthases (PKS) and associated ancillary ...
James T. Kealey +2 more
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Reproduction and Dispersal of Biological Soil Crust Organisms [PDF]
, 2019 Biological soil crusts (BSCs) consist of a diverse and highly integrated community of organisms that effectively colonize and collectively stabilize soil surfaces.
Aanderud, Zachary T. +7 more
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