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Plant Sciences
Gintaras Kantvilas, Ave Suija, Jurga Motiejunaite
Summary: Caloplaca tephromelae is a lichenicolous species found on saxicolous thalli of Tephromela species in Tasmania. It is distinguished by specific characteristics of its apothecia and ascospores, as compared to other Caloplaca species. Molecular data confirm the uniqueness of this new species without suggesting any close relatives.
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Microbiology
Runlei Chang, Yichen Wang, Yanyu Liu, Yiran Wang, Shiguo Li, Guoyan Zhao, Susu Zhang, Meixue Dai, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Tanay Bose, Hongli Si
Summary: This study explores the diversity of lichenicolous black fungi associated with lichens in China. The researchers collected 1,587 fungal isolates from lichen samples and identified 15 new species within the genus Cladophialophora using genetic analysis. The study highlights the importance of lichens as refuges for black lichenicolous fungi.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2023)
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Mycology
Shweta Sharma, Siljo Joseph, Sanjeeva Nayaka
Summary: This article reports eight lichenicolous fungi as new records from India, including five new hosts.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Zeinab T. Shakour, Mohamed A. Farag
Summary: This review focuses on the diversity and distribution of AQs produced by host-living fungal systems in different terrestrial ecosystems, and summarizes the potential bioactivities of fungal-derived AQs and their structure-activity relationship. Furthermore, the biosynthetic pathways of AQs in fungi are discussed, opening up new possibilities for potential biotechnological applications.
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ellyne Geurts, John Reynolds, Brian Starzomski
Summary: The exponential growth of community science programs has generated vast amounts of biodiversity data. However, the opportunistic nature of these datasets leads to biases, such as spatial bias. This study tested the impact of fine-scale spatial bias from trails on taxonomic richness estimates, and found higher richness on trails compared to off trails. This result is promising for using iNaturalist data in research and conservation management.
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Biodiversity Conservation
Nora Varga, Laszlo Lokos, Edit Farkas
Summary: Knowledge of lichenicolous fungi is limited worldwide, especially in regions like Central and Southern Europe. Recent studies in Hungary have led to the discovery of 104 lichenicolous species, including 53 new ones, indicating a greater diversity than previously thought.
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Plant Sciences
Josef Hafellner, Martin Grube
Summary: This article describes two new species of Arthonia that are parasites of Lecanora polytropa. They differ in pathogenicity and appearance, with one species being widely distributed in the Alps, Europe and North America, while the other species is found in a limited number of locations.
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Biology
Javier Etayo, Ma Eugenia Lopez de Silanes
Summary: This study in the surroundings of Albarracin mountains revealed the presence of seven species of lichens (including two lichenicolous species) and 18 lichenicolous fungi. Nineteen of these species were recorded for the first time in Teruel province and eleven in Aragon. Notably, the Feltgeniomyces luxemburgensis, with only three previous records worldwide, was identified as a first Iberian record.
NACC-NOVA ACTA CIENTIFICA COMPOSTELANA BIOLOXIA
(2022)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Manuela Dal Forno, James D. Lawrey, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Patrick M. Gillevet, Eric Schuettpelz, Robert Lucking
Summary: Recent studies have revealed remarkable diversity in Dictyonema s.lat. basidiolichens, with photobionts belonging to Rhizonema. Analysis of 765 new cyanobacterial sequences from 635 specimens collected from 18 countries identified three main divisions of Rhizonema, showing no evidence of photobiont-mycobiont co-speciation. Molecular clock estimations suggest that Rhizonema species are older than fungal species in Dictyonemateae, supporting the hypothesis of lichens representing fungal farmers.
Article
Plant Sciences
Roman Tuerk, Franz Berger, Andrea Berger, Michael Berger, Rainer Cezanne, Christian Dolnik, Marion Eichler, Johann Peter Gruber, Hagen Gruenberg, Josef Hafellner, Johanna Kluessendorf, Patrik Neumann, Volker Otte, Matthias Schultz, Norbert Stapper, Holger Thues, Dietmar Teuber, Lilith Weber
Summary: This article presents the list of lichens and lichenicolous fungi determined during the 2019 BLAM excursion to Lungau biosphere reserve, along with their substrates. The high number of detected taxa indicates the significance of Lungau as a refuge for endangered lichen taxa in Europe. New species to Austria and Salzburg province are also reported.
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Plant Sciences
Veselin V. Shivarov, Nora Varga, Laszlo Lokos, Wolfgang von Brackel, Anna Ganeva, Rayna Natcheva, Edit Farkas
Summary: This study presents an annotated checklist of 45 taxa of lichenicolous fungi from Bulgaria, with some species reported for the first time in the country. By comparing with other regions, it is estimated that Bulgaria may have between 225 and 315 lichenicolous fungi based on the known number of lichens in the country.
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Plant Sciences
Eugenia E. Muchnik, Andrei Tsurykau, Volker Otte, Othmar Breuss, Julia Gerasimova, Diana A. Cherepenina
Summary: This article presents records of various species of lichenized and lichenicolous fungi, including some new species. It also provides a brief description of the characteristics and geographic distribution of these species.
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Mycology
Yogesh Joshi, Pradeep Kumar, Arjun LalYadav, Niranjan Suda, Joseph P. Halda
Summary: The bare rock surfaces in cold deserts offer extreme environmental conditions where specialized organisms such as bacteria, black yeasts, fungi, mosses, lichens, and microalgae can thrive. This study focused on lichenicolous fungi associated with lichens of cold deserts in India, identifying a new species and listing a total of 36 species infecting 39 species of lichen hosts in the study site. The discovery of a new species of Zwackhiomyces increases the global count to 36, with eight of them found in India.
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Forestry
Silvia Ongaro, Guglielmo Lione, Deborah Isocrono
Summary: This study analyzed the epiphytic lichen communities on ash trees in the Aosta Valley and found variations in their occurrence and frequencies at different sampling sites. Environmental variables such as elevation, solar radiation, and source vicinity significantly influenced the composition of lichen communities. The presence of ash trees is important for the conservation of rare lichen species in the Italian Alps.
Review
Plant Sciences
Ana M. Millanes, Paul Diederich, Martin Westberg, Mats Wedin
Summary: This paper provides an introduction and review of lichenicolous 'heterobasidiomycetes' belonging in the Tremellomycetes and Pucciniomycotina, with a focus on recent studies and novelties of their classification, phylogeny, and evolution. Phylogenetic analyses reveal that the lichenicolous members of Chionosphaera form a monophyletic group in the Pucciniomycotina, leading to the description of the new genus Crittendenia to accommodate these species. Crittendenia, Cyphobasidium, and Lichenozyma are the only lichenicolous lineages known in the Pucciniomycotina.
