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Acetolysis Resistance of Modern Fungi: Testing Attributions of Enigmatic Proterozoic and Early Paleozoic Fossils

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Hidden diversity of marine borderline lichens and a new order of fungi: Collemopsidiales (Dothideomyceta)

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(2016) P. M. Shih et al.   Geobiology

Heveochlorella(Trebouxiophyceae): a little-known genus of unicellular green algae outside the Trebouxiales emerges unexpectedly as a major clade of lichen photobionts in foliicolous communities

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Matworld - the biogeochemical effects of early life on land

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DNA-Based Taxonomy in Ecologically Versatile Microalgae: A Re-Evaluation of the Species Concept within the Coccoid Green Algal Genus Coccomyxa (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)

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Dismantling Melaspileaceae: a first phylogenetic study of Buelliella, Hemigrapha, Karschia, Labrocarpon and Melaspilea

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The terrestrial biota prior to the origin of land plants (embryophytes): a review of the evidence

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Constraining the role of early land plants in Palaeozoic weathering and global cooling

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Ecological Specialization of Two Photobiont-Specific Maritime Cyanolichen Species of the Genus Lichina

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(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

A multigene phylogenetic synthesis for the class Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota): 1307 fungi representing 1139 infrageneric taxa, 317 genera and 66 families

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Identifying Hidden Rate Changes in the Evolution of a Binary Morphological Character: The Evolution of Plant Habit in Campanulid Angiosperms

(2013) Jeremy M. Beaulieu et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The effect of rock composition on cyanobacterial weathering of crystalline basalt and rhyolite

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(2012) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

The earliest records of internally stratified cyanobacterial and algal lichens from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland

(2012) Rosmarie Honegger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Paleozoic Origin of Enzymatic Lignin Decomposition Reconstructed from 31 Fungal Genomes

(2012) D. Floudas et al.   SCIENCE

Rock-inhabiting fungi originated during periods of dry climate in the late Devonian and middle Triassic

(2011) Cécile Gueidan et al.   Fungal Biology

New insights into relationships of lichen-forming Dothideomycetes

(2011) Matthew P. Nelsen et al.   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

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Origin and Diversification of Major Clades in Parmelioid Lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) during the Paleogene Inferred by Bayesian Analysis

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Integrating Fossil Preservation Biases in the Selection of Calibrations for Molecular Divergence Time Estimation

(2011) Alex Dornburg et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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(2010) C. V. Rubinstein et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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(2010) C. Gueidan et al.   STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY

Unravelling the phylogenetic relationships of lichenised fungi in Dothideomyceta

(2010) M.P. Nelsen et al.   STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY

A new genus and species of filamentous microfossil of cyanobacterial affinity from Early Silurian fluvial environments (lower Massanutten Sandstone, Virginia, USA)

(2009) ALEXANDRU M. F. TOMESCU et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Biological weathering and the long-term carbon cycle: integrating mycorrhizal evolution and function into the current paradigm

(2009) L. L. TAYLOR et al.   Geobiology

The late Precambrian greening of the Earth

(2009) L. Paul Knauth et al.   NATURE

The role of terrestrial plants in limiting atmospheric CO2 decline over the past 24 million years

(2009) Mark Pagani et al.   NATURE

The most ancient terrestrial lichen Winfrenatia reticulata: A new find and new interpretation

(2009) I. V. Karatygin et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Hidden levels of phylodiversity in Antarctic green algae: further evidence for the existence of glacial refugia

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The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum-wide Phylogeny Clarifies the Origin and Evolution of Fundamental Reproductive and Ecological Traits

(2009) Conrad L. Schoch et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Simple Method for Bracketing Absolute Divergence Times on Molecular Phylogenies Using Multiple Fossil Calibration Points

(2008) Charles R. Marshall   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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(2008) Patricia G. Gensel   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

A Rapid Bootstrap Algorithm for the RAxML Web Servers

(2008) Alexandros Stamatakis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY