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Molecular and morphological diversity in photobionts associated with Micarea s. str. (Lecanorales, Ascomycota)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2015

Rebecca Yahr ,
Anna Florence ,
Pavel Škaloud  and
Anna Voytsekhovich
Rebecca Yahr
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR, UK. Email: r.yahr@rbge.ac.uk
Anna Florence
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR, UK. Email: r.yahr@rbge.ac.uk
Pavel Škaloud
Affiliation:
Charles University in Prague, Department of Botany, Benátská 2, 12801 Praha 2, Czech Republic
Anna Voytsekhovich
Affiliation:
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the NAS of Ukraine, Tereshchenkivska str. 2, Kyiv 01601, Ukraine
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Abstract

Lichenization is a symbiotic ecological strategy that is widely distributed among the fungi, but in which the diversity of partners is relatively poorly known. Limited morphological diversity has hindered the recognition of true diversity in many lichen fungi, and also in their algal partners. In the temperate and boreal zones, the crustose microlichens are the most speciose but arguably the least studied, particularly in terms of their photobiont partners. In this study, we sampled eight species of Micarea s. str. collected from Europe, culturing and sequencing their green-algal partners using chloroplast (rbcL) and nuclear ribosomal (nucSSU) markers. All specimens collected in Great Britain were associated with members of Coccomyxa (including Pseudococcomyxa), but in the smaller sample of Ukrainian material, both Coccomyxa and Elliptochloris were found. This study extends the known range of fungal hosts for symbionts in the genus Coccomyxa, and supports earlier findings that a separate lineage of predominantly non-symbiotic Coccomyxa exists.

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algaeCoccomyxaElliptochlorislichenPseudococcomyxa
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The Lichenologist , Volume 47 , Supplement 6 , November 2015 , pp. 403 - 414
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© British Lichen Society, 2015 

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