For over 140 years, lichens have been regarded as a symbiosis between a single fungus, usually an ascomycete, and a photosynthesizing partner. Other fungi have long been known to occur as occasional p
This study uses a set of PCR-based methods to examine the putative microbiota associated with lichen thalli. In initial experiments, generalized oligonucleotide-primers for the 16S rRNA gene resulted
# Self-resistance allows lichens to use toxins for UV protectionThis repository contains the code associated to the paper: Self-resistance allows lichens to use toxins for UV protection
Supplementary files associated with Tagirdzhanova et al. 2023. A global survey of lichen symbionts from metagenomes Maximum likelihood phylogenetic trees of the MAGs isolated from lichen metagenomes.