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Comment
. 2022 Jun;234(5):1541-1543.
doi: 10.1111/nph.18130.

The lichen market place

Ilse Kranner  1 , Gregor Pichler  1 , Martin Grube  2
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Comment

The lichen market place

Ilse Kranner et al. New Phytol. 2022 Jun.

Abstract

This article is a Commentary on Spribille et al. (2022), 234: 1566–1582.

Keywords: desiccation tolerance; lichens; mycobiont; photobiont; symbiosis.

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Fig. 1
Lichen symbioses as biological markets. (a) The lichen market place on a rock surface, where different phenotypes of Sporastatia testudinea and Rhizocarpon geographicum compete for space. (b) Stratification of algal (upper green layer) and cyanobacterial (lower blue‐green layer) photosynthetic partners in the thallus of the chocolate chip lichen Solorina crocea (with typical orange lower side) suggests division of labor in nitrogen and carbon trading. Bar, (b) 300 µm.
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Comment on

  • Evolutionary biology of lichen symbioses.
    Spribille T, Resl P, Stanton DE, Tagirdzhanova G. Spribille T, et al. New Phytol. 2022 Jun;234(5):1566-1582. doi: 10.1111/nph.18048. Epub 2022 Mar 18. New Phytol. 2022. PMID: 35302240 Review.

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