Jolanta Maria Miadlikowska

Journal Article The Science of the total environment · October 2025 Nitrogen bioavailability frequently constrains primary production in the Arctic with tundra communities vulnerable to ecological and metabolic disruption from climate variability. Diazotrophs associated with lichens and mosses are the primary source of new ... Full text Cite

Peltigera lichen thalli produce highly potent ice-nucleating agents

Journal Article Biogeosciences · April 29, 2025 From extracellular freezing to cloud glaciation, the crystallization of water is ubiquitous and shapes life as we know it. Efficient biological ice nucleators (INs) are crucial for organism survival in cold environments and, when aerosolized, serve as a si ... Full text Cite

Central metabolism and development are rewired in lichenized cyanobacteria.

Journal Article The ISME journal · January 2025 Nostoc cyanobacteria are among the few organisms capable of fixing both carbon and nitrogen. These metabolic features are essential for the cyanolichen symbiosis, where Nostoc supplies both carbon (as glucose) and nitrogen (as ammonium) to a cyanolichen-fo ... Full text Cite

Eco-phylogenetic study of Trebouxia in southern Africa reveals interbiome connectivity and potential endemism in a green algal lichen photobiont.

Journal Article American journal of botany · December 2024 PremiseSouthern Africa is a biodiversity hotspot rich in endemic plants and lichen-forming fungi. However, species-level data about lichen photobionts in this region are minimal. We focused on Trebouxia (Chlorophyta), the most common lichen photob ... Full text Cite

Environmental drivers and cryptic biodiversity hotspots define endophytes in Earth's largest terrestrial biome.

Journal Article Current biology : CB · March 2024 Understanding how symbiotic associations differ across environmental gradients is key to predicting the fate of symbioses as environments change, and it is vital for detecting global reservoirs of symbiont biodiversity in a changing world.1 ... Full text Cite

High species richness in the lichen genus Peltigera (Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes): 34 species in the dolichorhizoid and scabrosoid clades of section Polydactylon, including 24 new to science

Journal Article Persoonia Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi · December 1, 2023 Applying molecular methods to fungi establishing lichenized associations with green algae or cyanobacteria has repeatedly revealed the existence of numerous phylogenetic taxa overlooked by classical taxonomic approaches. Here, we report taxonomical conclus ... Full text Cite

Towards a nomenclatural clarification of the Peltigera ponojensis/monticola clade including metagenomic sequencing of type material and the introduction of P. globulata Miadl. & Magain sp. nov.

Journal Article Lichenologist · September 22, 2023 Peltigera globulata Miadl. & Magain, a new species in the P. ponojensis/monticola species complex of section Peltigera, is formally described. This clade was previously given the interim designation Peltigera sp. 17. It is found in sun-exposed and xeric ha ... Full text Cite

Ancient Rapid Radiation Explains Most Conflicts Among Gene Trees and Well-Supported Phylogenomic Trees of Nostocalean Cyanobacteria.

Journal Article Systematic biology · June 2023 Prokaryotic genomes are often considered to be mosaics of genes that do not necessarily share the same evolutionary history due to widespread horizontal gene transfers (HGTs). Consequently, representing evolutionary relationships of prokaryotes as bifurcat ... Full text Cite

Two rare Peltigera species new to the Canadian Arctic, P. islandica and P. lyngei

Journal Article Plant and Fungal Systematics · July 1, 2022 Peltigera islandica and P. lyngei are rarely reported lichens. Previously, P. islandica was known from British Columbia, Estonia, and Iceland, and P. lyngei from Amchitka Island (Alaska), Gough Island (South Atlantic), Iceland, Siberia and Svalbard. Both s ... Full text Cite

Ecological generalism drives hyperdiversity of secondary metabolite gene clusters in xylarialean endophytes.

Journal Article The New phytologist · February 2022 Although secondary metabolites are typically associated with competitive or pathogenic interactions, the high bioactivity of endophytic fungi in the Xylariales, coupled with their abundance and broad host ranges spanning all lineages of land plants and lic ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic structure of specialization: A new approach that integrates partner availability and phylogenetic diversity to quantify biotic specialization in ecological networks.

Journal Article Ecology and evolution · February 2022 Biotic specialization holds information about the assembly, evolution, and stability of biological communities. Partner availabilities can play an important role in enabling species interactions, where uneven partner availabilities can bias estimates of bi ... Full text Cite

New and Interesting Fungi. 4.

Journal Article Fungal systematics and evolution · June 2021 An order, family and genus are validated, seven new genera, 35 new species, two new combinations, two epitypes, two lectotypes, and 17 interesting new host and / or geographical records are introduced in this study. Validated order, family and genus: Su ... Full text Cite

Climate and seasonality drive the richness and composition of tropical fungal endophytes at a landscape scale.

Journal Article Communications biology · March 2021 Featured Publication Understanding how species-rich communities persist is a foundational question in ecology. In tropical forests, tree diversity is structured by edaphic factors, climate, and biotic interactions, with seasonality playing an essential role at landscape scales ... Full text Cite

Sinuicella denisonii, a new genus and species in the Peltigeraceae from western North America

Journal Article Lichenologist · March 1, 2021 Featured Publication The new genus Sinuicella, an early successional lichen, was found on bare soil in Oregon, USA. The thallus is minute fruticose, grey to nearly black, branching isotomic dichotomous, branches round, 20-90 μm wide in water mount. The cortex is composed of in ... Full text Cite

Turnover of Lecanoroid Mycobionts and Their Trebouxia Photobionts Along an Elevation Gradient in Bolivia Highlights the Role of Environment in Structuring the Lichen Symbiosis.

Journal Article Frontiers in microbiology · January 2021 Shifts in climate along elevation gradients structure mycobiont-photobiont associations in lichens. We obtained mycobiont (lecanoroid Lecanoraceae) and photobiont (Trebouxia alga) DNA sequences from 89 lichen thalli collected in Bolivia from a ca. 4 ... Full text Cite

Biodiversity and ecology of lichens of Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska

Journal Article Plant and Fungal Systematics · December 1, 2020 We inventoried lichens in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska, USA We assembled the known information on occurrence and ecology of lichens in this park by combining field, herbarium, and literature studies. Our results provide baseline data on lichen occu ... Full text Cite

Peltigera hydrophila (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), a new semi-aquatic cyanolichen species from Chile

Journal Article Plant and Fungal Systematics · June 1, 2020 Peltigera hydrophila, a new species from Chile tentatively distinguished based on phylogenetic evidence but not yet named, is formally described here. Morphological differences (e.g., non-tomentose thallus) and habitat preferences (semi-aquatic) corroborat ... Full text Cite

Peltigera serusiauxii (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), a new species from Papua New Guinea and Malaysia

Journal Article Plant and Fungal Systematics · June 1, 2020 Peltigera serusiauxii is proposed here as a new species from Papua New Guinea and Sabah, northern Borneo (Malaysia). The species belongs to the polydactyloid clade of section Polydactylon. Because of its large thalli with a glabrous upper surface, this spe ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic evidence for an expanded circumscription of Gabura (Arctomiaceae)

Journal Article Lichenologist · January 1, 2020 Since the advent of molecular taxonomy, numerous lichen-forming fungi with homoiomerous thalli initially classified in the family Collemataceae Zenker have been transferred to other families, highlighting the extent of morphological convergence within Leca ... Full text Cite

Biodiversity assessment of ascomycetes inhabiting Lobariella lichens in Andean cloud forests led to one new family, three new genera and 13 new species of lichenicolous fungi

Journal Article Plant and Fungal Systematics · December 1, 2019 Neotropical mountain forests are characterized by having hyperdiverse and unusual fungi inhabiting lichens. The great majority of these lichenicolous fungi (i.e., detectable by light microscopy) remain undescribed and their phylogenetic relationships are m ... Full text Cite

Host availability drives distributions of fungal endophytes in the imperilled boreal realm.

Journal Article Nature ecology & evolution · October 2019 Boreal forests represent the world's largest terrestrial biome and provide ecosystem services of global importance. Highly imperilled by climate change, these forests host Earth's greatest phylogenetic diversity of endophytes, a hyperdiverse group of symbi ... Full text Cite

Species diversification and phylogenetically constrained symbiont switching generated high modularity in the lichen genus Peltigera

Journal Article Journal of Ecology · July 1, 2019 Ecological interactions range from purely specialized to extremely generalized in nature. Recent research has showed very high levels of specialization in the cyanolichens involving Peltigera (mycobionts) and their Nostoc photosynthetic partners (cyanobion ... Full text Cite

T-BAS Version 2.1: Tree-Based Alignment Selector Toolkit for Evolutionary Placement of DNA Sequences and Viewing Alignments and Specimen Metadata on Curated and Custom Trees.

Journal Article Microbiology resource announcements · July 2019 The Tree-Based Alignment Selector (T-BAS) toolkit combines phylogenetic-based placement of DNA sequences with alignment and specimen metadata visualization tools in an integrative pipeline for analyzing microbial biodiversity. The release of T-BAS version ... Full text Cite

Contemporaneous radiations of fungi and plants linked to symbiosis.

Journal Article Nature communications · December 2018 Interactions between fungi and plants, including parasitism, mutualism, and saprotrophy, have been invoked as key to their respective macroevolutionary success. Here we evaluate the origins of plant-fungal symbioses and saprotrophy using a time-calibrated ... Full text Cite

Species in section Peltidea (aphthosa group) of the genus Peltigera remain cryptic after molecular phylogenetic revision

Journal Article Plant and Fungal Systematics · December 1, 2018 Closely related lichen-forming fungal species circumscribed using phenotypic traits (morphospecies) do not always align well with phylogenetic inferences based on molecular data. Using multilocus data obtained from a worldwide sampling, we inferred phyloge ... Full text Cite

Contrasting Symbiotic Patterns in Two Closely Related Lineages of Trimembered Lichens of the Genus Peltigera

Journal Article Frontiers in Microbiology · November 16, 2018 Species circumscription is key to the characterization of patterns of specificity in symbiotic systems at a macroevolutionary scale. Here, a worldwide phylogenetic framework was used to assess the biodiversity and symbiotic patterns of association among pa ... Full text Cite

Species delimitation at a global scale reveals high species richness with complex biogeography and patterns of symbiont association in peltigera section peltigera (Lichenized ascomycota: Lecanoromycetes)

Journal Article Taxon · October 1, 2018 This comprehensive phylogenetic revision of sections Peltigera and Retifoveatae of the cyanolichen genus Peltigera is based on DNA sequences from more than 500 specimens from five continents. We amplified five loci (nrITS, β-tubulin and three intergenic sp ... Full text Cite

Strong specificity and network modularity at a very fine phylogenetic scale in the lichen genus Peltigera.

Journal Article Oecologia · July 2018 Identifying the drivers and evolutionary consequences of species interactions is a major goal of community ecology. Network-based analyses can provide mathematical tools to detect non-random patterns of interactions, and potentially help predicting the con ... Full text Cite

Bioclimatic factors at an intrabiome scale are more limiting than cyanobiont availability for the lichen-forming genus Peltigera.

Journal Article American journal of botany · July 2018 Premise of the studyFactors shaping spatiotemporal patterns of associations in mutualistic systems are poorly understood. We used the lichen-forming fungi Peltigera and their cyanobacterial partners Nostoc to investigate the spatial structure of t ... Full text Cite

Biodiversity and ecology of lichens of Katmai and Lake Clark National Parks and Preserves, Alaska

Journal Article Mycosphere · January 1, 2018 We inventoried lichens in Lake Clark (LACL) and Katmai (KATM) National Parks and Preserves. We assembled the known information on lichens in these parks by combining field, herbarium, and literature studies. Our results provide baseline data on lichen occu ... Full text Cite

Conserved genomic collinearity as a source of broadly applicable, fast evolving, markers to resolve species complexes: A case study using the lichen-forming genus Peltigera section Polydactylon.

Journal Article Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · December 2017 Synteny can be maintained for certain genomic regions across broad phylogenetic groups. In these homologous genomic regions, sites that are under relaxed purifying selection, such as intergenic regions, could be used broadly as markers for population genet ... Full text Cite

Multi-locus phylogeny supports the placement of endocarpon pulvinatum within staurothele s. Str. (lichenised ascomycetes, eurotiomycetes, verrucariaceae)

Journal Article Phytotaxa · May 5, 2017 Within the lichen family Verrucariaceae, the genera Endocarpon, Willeya and Staurothele are characterised by muriform ascospores and the presence of algal cells in the hymenium. Endocarpon thalli are squamulose to subfruticose, whereas Willeya and Stauroth ... Full text Cite

T-BAS: Tree-Based Alignment Selector toolkit for phylogenetic-based placement, alignment downloads and metadata visualization: an example with the Pezizomycotina tree of life.

Journal Article Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · April 2017 MotivationHigh-quality phylogenetic placement of sequence data has the potential to greatly accelerate studies of the diversity, systematics, ecology and functional biology of diverse groups. We developed the Tree-Based Alignment Selector (T-BAS) ... Full text Cite

Biological nitrogen fixation by alternative nitrogenases in boreal cyanolichens: importance of molybdenum availability and implications for current biological nitrogen fixation estimates.

Journal Article The New phytologist · January 2017 Cryptogamic species and their associated cyanobacteria have attracted the attention of biogeochemists because of their critical roles in the nitrogen cycle through symbiotic and asymbiotic biological fixation of nitrogen (BNF). BNF is mediated by the nitro ... Full text Cite

Macroevolution of Specificity in Cyanolichens of the Genus Peltigera Section Polydactylon (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota).

Conference Systematic biology · January 2017 Patterns of specificity among symbiotic partners are key to a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of symbiotic systems. Specificity of mutualistic partners, within a widespread monophyletic group for which all species are sampled has rarely been e ... Full text Cite

Photobiont associations in co-occurring umbilicate lichens with contrasting modes of reproduction in coastal Norway

Journal Article Lichenologist · September 1, 2016 The identity and phylogenetic placement of photobionts associated with two lichen-forming fungi, Umbilicaria spodochroa and Lasallia pustulata were examined. These lichens commonly grow together in high abundance on coastal cliffs in Norway, Sweden and Fin ... Full text Cite

Wood staining fungi revealed taxonomic novelties in Pezizomycotina: New order Superstratomycetales and new species Cyanodermella oleoligni.

Journal Article Studies in mycology · September 2016 A culture-based survey of staining fungi on oil-treated timber after outdoor exposure in Australia and the Netherlands uncovered new taxa in Pezizomycotina. Their taxonomic novelty was confirmed by phylogenetic analyses of multi-locus sequences (ITS ... Full text Cite

Peltigera islandica, a new cyanolichen species in section Peltigera ('P. canina group')

Journal Article Lichenologist · September 1, 2016 A new cyanolichen, Peltigera islandica sp. nov. in the section Peltigera ('P. canina group') is described from Iceland. This species is similar in general appearance to P. rufescens and P. membranacea, but may be recognized by its downturned lobe tips and ... Full text Cite

Erratum to: Interaction type influences ecological network structure more than local abiotic conditions: evidence from endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale.

Journal Article Oecologia · June 2016 Full text Cite

Contributions of North American endophytes to the phylogeny, ecology, and taxonomy of Xylariaceae (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota).

Journal Article Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · May 2016 The Xylariaceae (Sordariomycetes) comprise one of the largest and most diverse families of Ascomycota, with at least 85 accepted genera and ca. 1343 accepted species. In addition to their frequent occurrence as saprotrophs, members of the family often are ... Full text Cite

Interaction type influences ecological network structure more than local abiotic conditions: evidence from endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale.

Journal Article Oecologia · January 2016 Understanding the factors that shape community assembly remains one of the most enduring and important questions in modern ecology. Network theory can reveal rules of community assembly within and across study systems and suggest novel hypotheses regarding ... Full text Cite

Evolution of complex symbiotic relationships in a morphologically derived family of lichen-forming fungi.

Journal Article The New phytologist · December 2015 We studied the evolutionary history of the Parmeliaceae (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), one of the largest families of lichen-forming fungi with complex and variable morphologies, also including several lichenicolous fungi. We assembled a six-locus data set ... Full text Cite

Determination of elemental baseline using peltigeralean lichens from Northeastern Canada (Québec): Initial data collection for long term monitoring of the impact of global climate change on boreal and subarctic area in Canada.

Journal Article The Science of the total environment · November 2015 Northeastern Canada is mostly free of anthropogenic activities. The extent to which this territory has been impacted by anthropogenic atmospheric depositions remains to be studied. The main goal of our study was to establish background levels for metals in ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic analyses of eurotiomycetous endophytes reveal their close affinities to Chaetothyriales, Eurotiales, and a new order - Phaeomoniellales.

Journal Article Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · April 2015 Symbiotic fungi living in plants as endophytes, and in lichens as endolichenic fungi, cause no apparent symptoms to their hosts. They are ubiquitous, ecologically important, hyperdiverse, and represent a rich source of secondary compounds for new pharmaceu ... Full text Cite

Pezizomycotina: Lecanoromycetes

Journal Article · January 1, 2015 Lecanoromycetes is the class of Ascomycota with the largest number of lichen-forming fungi. Members of this class are important components of most terrestrial ecosystems and occur in various habitats and on different substrates, from tropical to polar regi ... Full text Cite

A multigene phylogenetic synthesis for the class Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota): 1307 fungi representing 1139 infrageneric taxa, 317 genera and 66 families.

Journal Article Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · October 2014 The Lecanoromycetes is the largest class of lichenized Fungi, and one of the most species-rich classes in the kingdom. Here we provide a multigene phylogenetic synthesis (using three ribosomal RNA-coding and two protein-coding genes) of the Lecanoromycetes ... Full text Cite

Tissue storage and primer selection influence pyrosequencing-based inferences of diversity and community composition of endolichenic and endophytic fungi.

Journal Article Molecular ecology resources · September 2014 Next-generation sequencing technologies have provided unprecedented insights into fungal diversity and ecology. However, intrinsic biases and insufficient quality control in next-generation methods can lead to difficult-to-detect errors in estimating funga ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic placement, species delimitation, and cyanobiont identity of endangered aquatic Peltigera species (lichen-forming Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes).

Journal Article American journal of botany · July 2014 • Premise of this study: Aquatic cyanolichens from the genus Peltigera section Hydrothyriae are subject to anthropogenic threats and, therefore, are considered endangered. In this study we addressed the phylogenetic placement of section Hydrothyriae within ... Full text Cite

Is vanadium a biometal for boreal cyanolichens?

Journal Article The New phytologist · May 2014 Molybdenum (Mo) nitrogenase has long been considered the predominant isoenzyme responsible for dinitrogen fixation worldwide. Recent findings have challenged the paradigm of Mo hegemony, and highlighted the role of alternative nitrogenases, such as the van ... Full text Cite

Assessing population structure and host specialization in lichenized cyanobacteria.

Journal Article The New phytologist · April 2013 Coevolutionary theory predicts that the distribution of obligately symbiotic organisms will be determined by the dispersal ability and ecological range of both partners. We examined this prediction for lichen-forming fungi that form obligate symbioses with ... Full text Cite

Culture-based study of endophytes associated with rubber trees in Peru reveals a new class of Pezizomycotina: Xylonomycetes.

Journal Article Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · October 2012 Through a culture-based survey of living sapwood and leaves of rubber trees (Hevea spp.) in remote forests of Peru, we discovered a new major lineage of Ascomycota, equivalent to a class rank. Multilocus phylogenetic analyses reveal that this new lineage o ... Full text Cite

Are widespread morphospecies from the Lecanora dispersa group (lichen-forming Ascomycota) monophyletic?

Journal Article Bryologist · June 1, 2012 To evaluate the current delimitation of broadly distributed morphospecies from the Lecanora dispersa group, the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (ITS1, 5.8S and ITS2) was analyzed phylogenetically and compared to phenotypic data variati ... Full text Cite

Host and geographic structure of endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale.

Journal Article American journal of botany · May 2012 Premise of the studyEndophytic and endolichenic fungi occur in healthy tissues of plants and lichens, respectively, playing potentially important roles in the ecology and evolution of their hosts. However, previous sampling has not comprehensively ... Full text Cite

Geographic, climatic, and chemical differentiation in the Hypogymnia imshaugii species complex (Lecanoromycetes, Parmeliaceae) in North America

Journal Article Bryologist · September 1, 2011 Hypogymnia imshaugii is one of the most common, conspicuous and morphologically variable epiphytic lichens of the Pacific coastal states and provinces. The species varies greatly in morphology and chemistry, suggesting multiple closely related species or o ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic affiliations of members of the heterogeneous lichen-forming fungi of the genus Lecidea sensu Zahlbruckner (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota).

Journal Article Mycologia · September 2011 The genus Lecidea Ach. sensu lato (sensu Zahlbruckner) includes almost 1200 species, out of which only 100 species represent Lecidea sensu stricto (sensu Hertel). The systematic position of the remaining species is mostly unsettled but anticipated to repre ... Full text Cite

Hypogymnia phylogeny, including Cavernularia, reveals biogeographic structure

Journal Article Bryologist · June 1, 2011 We inferred phylogenetic relationships using Bayesian and maximum likelihood approaches for two genera of lichenized fungi, Hypogymnia and Cavernularia (Parmeliaceae). Based on the combined ITS and GPD1 dataset from 23 species (49 specimens) of Hypogymnia ... Full text Cite

Single origin and subsequent diversification of central Andean endemic Umbilicaria species.

Journal Article Mycologia · January 2011 We studied an Andean endemic group of species of the lichen-forming fungal genus Umbilicaria from the subalpine and low-alpine zone, with their biogeographic center in Bolivia and Peru. A number of species and varieties have been described from this elemen ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic generic classification of parmelioid lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) based on molecular, morphological and chemical evidence

Journal Article Taxon · December 1, 2010 Parmelioid lichens are a diverse and ubiquitous group of foliose lichens. Generic delimitation in parmelioid lichens has been in a state of flux since the late 1960s with the segregation of the large, heterogeneous genus Parmelia into numerous smaller gene ... Full text Cite

Community analysis reveals close affinities between endophytic and endolichenic fungi in mosses and lichens

Journal Article Microbial Ecology · 2010 Cite

Assessing reproductive isolation in highly diverse communities of the lichen-forming fungal genus peltigera.

Journal Article Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · August 2009 The lichen-forming fungal genus Peltigera includes a number of species that are extremely widespread, both geographically and ecologically. However, morphological variability has lead to doubts about the distinctness of some species, and it has been sugges ... Full text Cite

Lichens.

Journal Article Current biology : CB · July 2009 Full text Cite

A phylogenetic estimation of trophic transition networks for ascomycetous fungi: are lichens cradles of symbiotrophic fungal diversification?

Journal Article Systematic biology · June 2009 Fungi associated with photosynthetic organisms are major determinants of terrestrial biomass, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem productivity from the poles to the equator. Whereas most fungi are known because of their fruit bodies (e.g., saprotrophs), sympto ... Full text Cite

The Ascomycota tree of life: a phylum-wide phylogeny clarifies the origin and evolution of fundamental reproductive and ecological traits.

Journal Article Systematic biology · April 2009 We present a 6-gene, 420-species maximum-likelihood phylogeny of Ascomycota, the largest phylum of Fungi. This analysis is the most taxonomically complete to date with species sampled from all 15 currently circumscribed classes. A number of superclass-leve ... Full text Cite

Towards a new classification of the Arthoniales (Ascomycota) based on a three-gene phylogeny focussing on the genus Opegrapha.

Journal Article Mycological research · January 2009 A multi-locus phylogenetic study of the order Arthoniales is presented here using the nuclear ribosomal large subunit (nuLSU), the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II (RPB2) and the mitochondrial ribosomal small subunit (mtSSU). These genes were se ... Full text Cite

Dermatocarpon (Verrucariaceae) in the Ozark Highlands, North America

Journal Article Bryologist · March 1, 2008 Dermatocarpon, a saxicolous lichen, is common throughout the Ozarks Highlands of North America where exposed rock is abundant. Dermatocarpon is an understudied genus. Species delimitation is difficult because of a paucity of morphological characters and a ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic comparison of protein-coding versus ribosomal RNA-coding sequence data: a case study of the Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota).

Journal Article Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · July 2007 The resolving power and statistical support provided by two protein-coding (RPB1 and RPB2) and three ribosomal RNA-coding (nucSSU, nucLSU, and mitSSU) genes individually and in various combinations were investigated based on maximum likelihood bootstrap an ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic relationships, host affinity, and geographic structure of boreal and arctic endophytes from three major plant lineages.

Journal Article Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · February 2007 Although associated with all plants, fungal endophytes (microfungi that live within healthy plant tissues) represent an unknown proportion of fungal diversity. While there is a growing appreciation of their ecological importance and human uses, little is k ... Full text Cite

A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi

Journal Article Mycological Research · 2007 Cite

New insights into classification and evolution of the Lecanoromycetes (Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota) from phylogenetic analyses of three ribosomal RNA- and two protein-coding genes.

Journal Article Mycologia · November 2006 The Lecanoromycetes includes most of the lichen-forming fungal species (> 13500) and is therefore one of the most diverse class of all Fungi in terms of phenotypic complexity. We report phylogenetic relationships within the Lecanoromycetes resulting from B ... Full text Cite

Eurotiomycetes: Eurotiomycetidae and Chaetothyriomycetidae.

Journal Article Mycologia · November 2006 The class Eurotiomycetes (Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina) is a monophyletic group comprising two major clades of very different ascomycetous fungi: (i) the subclass Eurotiomycetidae, a clade that contains most of the fungi previously recognized as Plectomycete ... Full text Cite

A five-gene phylogeny of Pezizomycotina.

Journal Article Mycologia · November 2006 Pezizomycotina is the largest subphylum of Ascomycota and includes the vast majority of filamentous, ascoma-producing species. Here we report the results from weighted parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of five nuclear loci (S ... Full text Cite

Reconstructing the early evolution of the Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny

Journal Article Nature · 2006 Cite

Assessing host specialization in symbiotic cyanobacteria associated with four closely related species of the lichen fungus Peltigera

Journal Article European Journal of Phycology · November 1, 2005 Heterocystous cyanobacteria form symbiotic associations with a wide range of plant and fungal hosts. We used a molecular phylogenetic approach to investigate the degree of host specialization of cyanobacteria associated with four closely related species of ... Full text Cite

Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits.

Journal Article American journal of botany · October 2004 Based on an overview of progress in molecular systematics of the true fungi (Fungi/Eumycota) since 1990, little overlap was found among single-locus data matrices, which explains why no large-scale multilocus phylogenetic analysis had been undertaken to re ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic classification of peltigeralean fungi (Peltigerales, Ascomycota) based on ribosomal RNA small and large subunits.

Journal Article American journal of botany · March 2004 To provide a comprehensive molecular phylogeny for peltigeralean fungi and to establish a classification based on monophyly, phylogenetic analyses were carried out on sequences from the nuclear ribosomal large (LSU) and small (SSU) subunits obtained from 1 ... Full text Cite

The lichenicolous Opegrapha species (Roccellaceae, Ascomycota) with 3-septate ascospores on Pertusaria and Ochrolechia

Journal Article Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society · February 1, 2004 The Opegrapha species with 3-septate ascospores growing on Pertusaria and Ochrolechia are revised. Two species are recognized: Opegrapha anomea (of which O. pertusariae, O. quaternella, O. wetmorei and possibly Leciographa weissii are considered to be syno ... Full text Cite

New approach to an old problem: Incorporating signal from gap-rich regions of ITS and rDNA large subunit into phylogenetic analyses to resolve the Peltigera canina species complex.

Journal Article Mycologia · November 2003 The Peltigera canina species complex consists of foliose lichenized bitunicate ascohymenial discomycetes forming section Peltigera within the genus Peltigera (Lecanoromycetes, lichen-forming Ascomycetes). To test the circumscription of highly polymorphic s ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic inferences based on nrDNA sequences support five morphospecies within the Peltigera didactyla complex (Lichenized Ascomycota)

Journal Article Bryologist · January 1, 2003 The Peltigera didactyla complex comprises species of section Peltigera with laminal and submarginal soredia. Three species (P. didactyla, P. lambinonii, and P. ulcerata) and one atypical variety (P. didactyla var. extenuata) are currently recognized within ... Full text Cite

A new species of Plectocarpon (Lichenicolous Roccellaceae, Ascomycota) on Peltigera

Journal Article Bryologist · January 1, 2003 A new lichenicolous species, Plectocarpon peltigerae, growing on Peltigera leucophlebia thalli, is described from Canada and Russia. ... Full text Cite

The lichen genus Sticta in the Great Smoky Mountains: A phylogenetic study of morphological, chemical, and molecular data

Journal Article Bryologist · January 1, 2003 In this paper we segregate specimens from the genus Sticta in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park into phenotypic groups corresponding to putative species using traditional taxonomic methods, paying particular attention to specimens from the S. weigeli ... Full text Cite

Pseudocyphellaria perpetua, a new lichen from western North America

Journal Article Bryologist · January 1, 2002 Pseudocyphellaria perpetua McCune & Miadlikowska is described as a new species of lichenized fungus from Oregon, U.S.A. Morphologically similar to some forms of P. crocata, P. perpetua is separated from that species by a yellow medulla and predominantly ma ... Full text Cite

Phylogenetic revision of the genus Peltigera (lichen-forming Ascomycota) based on morphological, chemical, and large subunit nuclear ribosomal DNA data

Journal Article International Journal of Plant Sciences · January 1, 2000 Peltigera (Peltigerineae, lichenized Ascomycota) is one of the most widespread lichen genera incorporating bi- and trimembered associations involving fungi, green algae (cf. Coccomyxa), and cyanobacteria (cf. Nostoc). A wide range of morphological and chem ... Full text Cite

Peltigera phyllidiosa (Peltigeraceae, ascomycotina), a new species from the Southern Appalachians corroborated by its sequences

Journal Article Lichenologist · January 1, 1999 The new species Peltigera phyllidiosa Goffinet and Miadlikowska from the Southern Appalachians, eastern U.S.A., is closely related to P. collina and P. neckeri. Like these species it has a glabrous upper cortex and black fingernail- or saddle-shaped apothe ... Full text Cite

New species of lichenicolous fungi occurring on Peltigera in Ecuador and Europe

Journal Article Mycological Research · January 1, 1997 A study of the lichenicolous fungi occurring on species of the lichenized genus Peltigera has resulted in six new species: Libertiella curvispora, L. didymospora, L. fennica Alstrup, Polycoccum superficiale, Roselliniella peltigericola, and Zwackhiomyces K ... Full text Cite

Vagnia, a remarkable coelomycete producing a black columnar cirrus on Peltigera in Poland

Journal Article Lichenologist · January 1, 1997 The new genus Vagnia is introduced for the single species V. cirriformia discovered on thalli of Peltigera in Poland; it appears to be a pathogen as the cortex is destroyed in a rounded patch within which the conidiomata occur. The fungus is characterized ... Full text Cite