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SUBMITTER: Spribille T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5793994 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Spribille Toby T Tuovinen Veera V Resl Philipp P Vanderpool Dan D Wolinski Heimo H Aime M Catherine MC Schneider Kevin K Stabentheiner Edith E Toome-Heller Merje M Thor Göran G Mayrhofer Helmut H Johannesson Hanna H McCutcheon John P JP
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20160721 6298
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 parasites or endophytes, but the one lichen-one fungus paradigm has seldom been questioned. Here we show that many common lichens are composed of the known ascomycete, the photosynthesizing partner, and, unexpectedly, specific basidiomycete yeasts. These yeasts are embedded in the cortex, and their a ...[more]