Lichen fungi have low cyanobiont selectivity in maritime Antarctica

• Published in: New Phytologist
• Main Authors: Wirtz, Nora, Lumbsch, H. Thorsten, Green, T.G. Allan, Türk, Roman, Pintado, Ana, Sancho, Leopoldo G., Schroeter, Burkhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2010
• Subjects: lichens; Nostoc; cyanobacteria; maritime Antarctica; symbiont specificity; tRNALeu intron; Antarctic; Livingston Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4090; https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00859.x

The cyanobionts of lichens and free-living Nostoc strains from Livingston Island (maritime Antarctica) were examined to determine both the cyanobiont specificity of lichens and the spatial distribution of Nostoc strains under extreme environmental conditions. We collected five different lichen speci...