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The genetic structure of the cosmopolitan three-partner lichen Ramalina farinacea evidences the concerted diversification of symbionts.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 Feb 2013
del Campo Eva M, Catalá Santiago, Gimeno Jacinta, del Hoyo Alicia, Martínez-Alberola Fernando, Casano Leonardo M, Grube Martin, Barreno Eva
Abstract excerpt
The epiphytic lichen Ramalina farinacea is distributed throughout the northern hemisphere in which the same two algal Trebouxia species (provisionally named TR1 and TR9) coexist in every thallus. Ramalina farinacea symbionts were characterized based on the two fungal nuclear loci (nrITS and rpb2) along with the primary and secondary structures of nrITS from each Trebouxia species in the Iberian Peninsula and...
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