Photobiont selectivity for lichens and evidence for a possible glacial refugium in the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Jones, Tracey C., Hogg, Ian D., Wilkins, Richard J., Green, T.G. Allan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2013
• Subjects: algae; lichens; mycobiont; photobiont; Ross Dependency; selectivity; symbiosis; Ross Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7606; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-013-1295-7

Lichens are a symbiosis consisting of heterotrophic, fungal (mycobiont) and photosynthetic algal or cyanobacterial (photobiont) components. We examined photobiont sequences from lichens in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica using the internal transcribed spacer region of ribosomal DNA and tested the...