396 taxa (381 species) of lichenized and 45 species of lichenicolous fungi from the upper montane, subalpine and alpine belts of the Albanian Alps (= Prokletije Mountain Range, Bjeshkët e Nemuna) are presented. 92 lichenized and 26 lichenicolous fungi are new to Montenegro, 165 lichenized and 24 lichenicolous fungi are new to Kosovo, and 25 lichenized fungi (23 species) are new for the Balkan Peninsula.
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May 2024
University of Trieste, Department of Life Sciences, via Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy University of Trieste Trieste Italy.
This paper, with Italy as a case-study, provides a general overview on the ecology of lichenicolous lichens, i.e. those which start their life-cycle on the thallus of other lichens.
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June 2023
Wasterdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 85167, 3508 AD Utrecht, The Netherlands.
J Fungi (Basel)
January 2024
Departamento de Enxeñaría dos Recursos Naturais e Medio Ambiente, Enxeñaría Forestal, Universidade de Vigo, Campus de Pontevedra, 36005 Pontevedra, Spain.
We have found 117 taxa of lichenicolous fungi in the studied area. In this paper, we describe five taxa: on , on , on , on and ssp. on .
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January 2024
Integrative Biotechnology, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Carl-Schurz-Str. 10-16, Pirmasens 66953, Germany.
Over the decades our understanding of lichens has shifted to the fact that they are multiorganismic, symbiotic microecosystems, with their complex interactions coming to the fore due to recent advances in microbiomics. Here, we present a mutualistic-parasitic continuum dynamics scenario between an orange lichen and a lichenicolous fungus from the Atacama Desert leading to the decay of the lichen's photobiont and leaving behind a black lichen thallus. Based on isolation, sequencing, and ecophysiological approaches including metabolic screenings of the symbionts, we depict consequences upon infection with the lichenicolous fungus.
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January 2024
W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, Krakow PL-31-512, Poland.
Acrospermales represent one of the least studied lineages of Dothideomycetes and are characterized by diverse ecological strategies, including saprotrophic, epiphytic, fungicolous, lichenicolous, and bryophilous lifestyles. The order is composed of two teleomorphic genera, and , and five anamorphic genera of unclear relationships. The objectives of the study were to establish the phylogenetic position of species collected from lichens in the tropical forest of Bolivia and to infer the evolution of the lichenicolous lifestyle in Acrospermales.
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