ReviewThe New phytologist2022
Evolutionary biology of lichen symbioses.
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- Functional redundancy and stability support the resilience of the Evernia prunastri holobiont under urbanization.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Structural Features of Algal and Fungal GATA Transcription Factors may Play a Role in Symbiosis.Journal of molecular evolution · 2026Article
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- Convergent symbioses: morphology, life history, and niche specialization in coral and lichen mutualisms.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Chromosome-level genome assembly of the photobiont microalga Trebouxia sp. 'A48' from the lichen Xanthoria parietina.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Mono-mix strategy enables comparative proteomics of a cross-kingdom microbial symbiosis.PloS one · 2026Article
- Lichens in times of climate change - impacts and responses especially in boreal and polar ecosystems.MycoKeys · 2026Review
- Poikilohydria, polyols, and homeoviscosity: lichen metabolomic remodeling across environmental gradients.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Semilichen, an unjustly neglected symbiotic system between green biofilms and true lichens.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Different Patterns of Frequency, Lichen Specificity and Thallus Location Between the Yeast and Filamentous Phases of Two Lichen-Inhabiting Basidiomycetes.Environmental microbiology · 2025Article
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- Mechanisms, detection, and impact of horizontal gene transfer in plant functional evolution.The Plant cell · 2025Review
- Effects of lichen symbiotic bacteria-derived indole-3-acetic acid on the stress responses of an algal-fungal symbiont.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2025Article
- Fungal and algal lichen symbionts show different transcriptional expression patterns in two climate zones.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The rise of fungal G-protein coupled receptors in pathogenesis and symbiosis.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
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Abstract
Lichens are the symbiotic outcomes of open, interspecies relationships, central to which are a fungus and a phototroph, typically an alga and/or cyanobacterium. The evolutionary processes that led to the global success of lichens are poorly understood. In this review, we explore the goods and services exchange between fungus and phototroph and how this propelled the success of both symbiont and symbiosis. Lichen fungal symbionts count among the only filamentous fungi that expose most of their mycelium to an aerial environment. Phototrophs export carbohydrates to the fungus, which converts them to specific polyols. Experimental evidence suggests that polyols are not only growth and respiratory substrates but also play a role in anhydrobiosis, the capacity to survive desiccation. We propose that this dual functionality is pivotal to the evolution of fungal symbionts, enabling persistence in environments otherwise hostile to fungi while simultaneously imposing costs on growth. Phototrophs, in turn, benefit from fungal protection from herbivory and light stress, while appearing to exert leverage over fungal sex and morphogenesis. Combined with the recently recognized habit of symbionts to occur in multiple symbioses, this creates the conditions for a multiplayer marketplace of rewards and penalties that could drive symbiont selection and lichen diversification.
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