New insights into diversity and selectivity of trentepohlialean lichen photobionts from the extratropics.

ABSTRACT: Aerial green algae of Trentepohliaceae can form conspicuous free-living colonies, be parasites of plants or photobionts of lichen-forming ascomycetes. So far, their diversity in temperate regions is still poorly known as it has been mostly studied by phenotypic approaches only. We present new insights in the phylogenetic relationships of lichenized representatives from temperate and Mediterranean parts of Europe by analysis of 18S rRNA and rbcL gene fragments, and nuclear ITS sequence data. For this purpose we isolated the trentepohlialean photobionts from lichens representing different genera. Algal cultures from lichenized and free-living Trentepohliaceae were used to design new primers for amplification of the marker loci. We constructed a phylogenetic hypothesis to reveal the ph

SUBMITTER: Hametner C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4110408 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature