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 ...

Walking around the hills in Valencia County you will have noticed the small patches of wildly colored vegetation covering old ...

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 ...

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 ...