A study on Lepraria lichens found they possess genes for sexual reproduction despite being thought entirely asexual. This ...

Lichen symbiosis is particularly successful in habitats with frequent changes in water availability. In contrast, long periods of constant immersion in freshwater or seawater is tolerated only by a ...

The Symbiosis station discusses parasitism and mutualism ... Another type of mutualistic fungus occurs in lichens. A lichen appears to be a single organism but is actually a composite: a fungus and a ...

The first observation of symbiosis was the recognition that lichen is actually two independent organisms that live together — a fungus and a blue–green alga. The word symbiosis, originally ...

Specifically, she is interested in the underlying genomic consequences of the obligate lichen symbiosis, and the genetics of domestication in the common sunflower, Helianthus annuus. IQ Biology not ...

One fifth of the strains are maintained in pure axenic cultures. The collection also contains cyanobacterial strains isolated from lichen symbiosis and from a variety of habitats in Brazil as part of ...

Lichens are a symbiotic organism, usually composed of a fungal partner (mycobiont) and one or more photosynthetic partner (photobiont) which is most often either a green algae or cyanobacterium ...